"Jim Whitehurst" (born ) is the Chief Executive Officer at Red Hat. Prior to that, he was a Chief Operating Officer of Delta Air Lines. Whitehurst was tapped by former Delta CEO Gerald Grinstein to lead the airline out of bankruptcy and played a critical role in Delta's battle for survival against the hostile takeover attempt by US Airways in 2006. Whitehurst became a very popular figure during the campaign to Keep Delta My Delta because of his transparent honesty and genuine affection for the company and its heritage. Some have speculated that his fierce defense of Delta worked against him as Delta's Board sought a successor to CEO Grinstein in 2007. Before his appointment as COO of Delta, Whitehurst served as Senior Vice President and Chief Network and Planning Officer for the company.

Prior to joining Delta in 2002, he served as Vice President and Director of The Boston Consulting Group and held various management roles at its Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Atlanta offices.

In 2013, the Governor of North Carolina, Pat McCrory, appointed Whitehurst as a member and vice-chairman of the North Carolina Economic Development Board.

In 2014, Whitehurst was selected as the recipient of the NC State Park Scholarships program's William C. Friday Award.

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There's never been a company that I've wanted to leave consulting to work for other than Delta. It's a company I can feel very passionate about and feel passionate about saving.

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This really will help us continue to build transcontinental and international services out of New York.

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Delta's new service to Africa will mark many firsts for our hometown of Atlanta and for our customers, including the first non-stop service between Atlanta and Senegal on the West African coast, and the first Delta-operated service from Atlanta to Johannesburg. As evidenced by our recent growth in most every corner of the globe, Delta is making decisive moves to establish itself not only as the U.

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We're certainly not holding up our network plans. These are actually things that help morale a lot.

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We've reached about the limit of where we want to put load factors.

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We're building a hub here. One of the decisions we had to make is if we were going to compete in New York. The short answer is yes.

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We fly people to the West and South very well now, but we don't serve the Northeast too well. To get there before, you had to either drive from these cities or you had to connect through somewhere else. This should bring in new customers.

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