Originally Posted by
AeroCrewSolut
I hope the Senior VP of Flight Ops never returns to the line. I have respect for him and what he has done at Delta. Extremely smart man and will listen to what you have to say. I do believe he graduated #1 at the Air Force Academy and his roomate was #2. It was the first time in AFA history that the #1 and #2 graduates were pilots. He also graduated #1 at Georgia Tech law school. I hope he becomes President of Delta Air Lines.
I worked in the Aerospace Development world in addition to DAL for several years. I worked with a lot of smart guys. I flew to india a lot for DAL and met a lot of smart guys. To date, the smartest guy I ever met, bar none, was the valedictorian from the USAFA. However, when he graduated from Harvard Law, he was only in the top 10%. (Apparently the Chinese students for whom english is a second language were smarter than him).
Anyway, if SD was #1 at the zoo, he is smart. I am very impressed if that is the case.