Thomas W. Horton

Thomas W. Horton (born 05/24/1961) was the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of AMR Corporation until it merged with US Airways Group to form American Airlines Group, Inc. and was the Chairman of American Airlines Group, Inc. and American Airlines. He also served as Chairman of oneworld, the global airline alliance, until March 2014.

Horton has been credited for reinventing American Airlines and improving the Company’s overall performance. As CEO, he led the Company through and out of one of the most successful restructurings ever of that scale, culminating in a merger with US Airways, that was approved by the Department of Justice on November 12, 2013. On November 21, 2014, he was appointed to the board of Walmart. He also serves on the board of Qualcomm Inc., currently as presiding director. In 2015, he joined Warburg Pincus as senior advisor.

Horton was born in Hampton, Virginia and spent much of his life in Texas. He has a BBA degree, magna cum laude, from Baylor University and an MBA degree from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in 1985.

Horton began his career at AMR in 1985 as a financial analyst. From 1998 to 2000, he led the airline’s International business based in London. Horton was appointed Chief Financial Officer in January 2000.

He left AMR in 2002 to join AT&T as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Horton was later appointed AT&T’s Vice Chairman. He is credited for helping to create the new AT&T – in 2005, Horton led the evaluation of strategic alternatives, ultimately leading to the combination with Cingular and SBC which formed the new AT&T.

Horton returned to AMR in March 2006 and served as Executive Vice President — Finance and Planning and Chief Financial Officer of AMR and American. In 2008, he was named US top CFO by Institutional Investor magazine. In July 21, 2010, he was named President of the airline.

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