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Delta CEO on Donald Trump’s wall: ‘We’re going to fly over that damn thing’

Delta Air Lines CEO Edward Bastian. AJC file
Delta Air Lines CEO Edward Bastian. AJC file
By Jim Galloway
Oct 11, 2017

In May, Delta Air Lines began a joint venture

with Aeromexico. The latter gets connections to Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, Salt Lake City and Seattle.

Delta gets greater access to Mexico through Aeromexico hubs in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara. The U.S. airline now has a 49 percent stake in Aeromexico. Delta CEO Ed Bastian sits on Aeromexico's board.

With that investment come certain opinions.

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About the Author

Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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