Delta CEO Proclaims Detroit Metropolitan Airport Best in the World
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Detroit Metropolitan is a nice airport but Richard Anderson should get out more if he truly thinks it is the best airport in the world. Perhaps he got carried away in trying to please the members of the Detroit Economic Club.
As he took his Open Skies rewind campaign to Detroit, Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson may have let sentimentality get the best of him as he declared Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport "the best" in the world.
Anderson has a history in Detroit and at the airport, including spending three to four nights a week there in the mid-1990s at what is now the Courtyard Detroit Metro Airport Romulus hotel as a Northwest Airlines executive overseeing the construction of McNamara Terminal. Anderson became Delta CEO in 2007 and the airline acquire Northwest a year later.
"First of all, I'm biased," Anderson told the Detroit Economic Club June 23, referring to his
