Alaska Airlines has hired Charu Jain as chief
information officer to assist with technology integrations following its
acquisition of Virgin America. Jain joins the carrier from IBM Global Business
Services, where she led a team helping American Airlines with its own IT system
integration after the American-US Airways merger. Jain also had a 20-year career at United Airlines. She left that
carrier in 2012, when her title was senior managing director of airline
operations technology and technology integration.