Trump reportedly took offense that Ed Bastian didn't show up to a White House meeting that the CEOs of American, United, FedEx and Qatar Airways attended. Now Bastian has offered an explanation to Delta employees: he wouldn't move his vacation.
Where was Ed? In the wake of last week’s meeting between U.S. airline executives and President Trump, one of the more interesting details that emerged was that the president reportedly was incensed that Delta CEO Ed Bastian didn’t show up.
Belying Trump’s protectionist stance on other trade issues, the meeting ended with the president telling the largest U.S. airlines that if they have a beef with Qatar Airways, they should avail themselves of the established Department of Transportation complaint procedures that they've resisted using since first raising their complaints four years ago . It's largely expected that their case doesn't meet the legal standard such a complaint would be held to.
I know we’ve gotten some media inquiries recently, and I’ve certainly gotten some questions from our employees relative to a meeting that was held in the White House with the President regarding our Middle Eastern campaign with the airlines, and a meeting that was held with some of the airline CEOs that I was not able to attend.
Recently however as many of you know there is a new airline that has popped up on the scene called Air Italy which is based in Italy and is a proxy airline really for Qatar and as a result we’ve called it to the administration’s attention and many of you, in fact over 40,000 of you have sent emails in this year alone to the administration asking that they make certain that the agreements that Air Italy is flying under complies with the requirements of Open Skies and insist upon the transparency...
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