For instance, Mr. Isom said, at one airport, winds of 10 knots required a slowdown.
Isom said his recommendation "probably had an influence" in Clinton's decision to go with Smith.
Isom, who described himself as a political independent, said he made his 9 a.m. tee off.
Just last season, former LSU women's soccer goalkeeper Mo Isom tried out for as a Tigers placekicker.
Robert Isom, head of operations at US Airways, said the FAA furloughs were like a "wildcat regulatory action".
In a letter to its employees, US Airways Chief Operating Officer Robert Isom called the FAA announcement disappointing.
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"We're not working in partnership with the FAA, " said Robert Isom, chief operating officer at US Airways Group Inc.
"You want somebody -- when they go through those double doors in surgery -- that thinks they're the best, " Isom said.
The past few days have seen relatively good weather, Mr. Isom said.
"I said, 'I'm on vacation, ' " Isom recalled in a telephone interview.
At 64, Isom said he can pretty much decide what he wants to do -- and he prefers surgery that includes valve replacements to simple CABG, which Clinton underwent.
At that, the doctor asked Isom, a cardiac surgeon and surgeon in chief at Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York, whom he would recommend at his sister institution, Columbia-New York Hospital, in Upper Manhattan.
"The hope is there is some solution so we won't have to go through this all summer, " said Mr. Isom, adding that the FAA's handling of the problems has left airlines puzzled because seemingly small issues are causing delays.
From 1999 through 2001, two of the 175 patients on whom Isom performed a simple coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) died, a 1.14 percent mortality rate, according to figures recently released by the New York State Department of Health.
"My patients often bring pictures of the stars they want to look like, but I never do what they say because it wouldn't suit their face, " says Canan Melike Koksuz, a surgeon at Isom, an Istanbul cosmetic surgery practice, which says it has welcomed chief executives and celebrities from as far away as China and Australia for hair transplants.
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