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Delta Air Lines CEO on why he still flies in the back of the plane

Aug 30, 2016

Delta Air Lines CEO on why he still flies in the back of the plane

Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Airlines. Delta Airlines

Delta CEO Ed Bastian has lots to say about leading one of the nation's largest airlines.

When Ed Bastian became the CEO of Delta Air Lines this past May, he’d already been with the company for years. He talks to Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal about why he once quit Delta, the outage that grounded flights and why bigger isn’t always better.

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