Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower:
Airlines are a short term bet at the very best. Once some regressive "carbon taxes" get applied and passed on to consumers their margins will plummet.
The only airline stock I have is Southwest. In that realm, I follow some stock advice that I heard long ago - don't buy a stock unless you would buy what the company is selling. Southwest is the only airline out there with a customer focus. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
The only airline stock I have is Southwest. In that realm, I follow some stock advice that I heard long ago - don't buy a stock unless you would buy what the company is selling. Southwest is the only airline out there with a customer focus.
Customer focus in what way?
Don't get me wrong I choose LUV when there Wanna Get Away fares are the relatively same price as other carriers but if I think what you mean is "cheapest fares period" then that ain't LUV.
Also carbon taxes are coming for all carriers, so.. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Microsoft is such a good buying opportunity IMO. I’ve got Apple, but buying Microsoft bc it’s half the price and is doing just as well. Their azure development is really good.
Also considering buying OILU crude oil. It’s the lowest it’s ever been in its history at 8.7. Crude oil will bounce back at some point, it always does. Just gotta wait about 6 months.
You talking about buying a contract of oil on the futures market?
If so, remember there are margin requirements. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower:
Customer focus in what way?
Don't get me wrong I choose LUV when there Wanna Get Away fares are the relatively same price as other carriers but if I think what you mean is "cheapest fares period" then that ain't LUV.
Also carbon taxes are coming for all carriers, so..
Nah. I can change tickets if I need to without a ludicrous change fee. I don't get charged extra for a bag. And above all, I get honest pricing quotes that don't hide fees. (I'm looking at you, Frontier.)
I've purchased one - precisely one - ticket this past year on an airline other than Southwest. As luck would have it, I needed to change the ticket. The fees were so high that it was better for me to buy a ticket on Southwest than to change the (non-refundable) ticket that I had on United, so I had to eat that ticket and United kept my money and provided precisely zero value to me. So I learned my lesson about flying an airline other than Southwest. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
Nah. I can change tickets if I need to without a ludicrous change fee. I don't get charged extra for a bag. And above all, I get honest pricing quotes that don't hide fees. (I'm looking at you, Frontier.)
I've purchased one - precisely one - ticket this past year on an airline other than Southwest. As luck would have it, I needed to change the ticket. The fees were so high that it was better for me to buy a ticket on Southwest than to change the (non-refundable) ticket that I had on United. So I learned my lesson about flying an airline other than Southwest.
The growth isn't in the type of buyer who needs easy fare changes though. It's the buyers who are locked in to a destination and time and are willing to eat the loss if they have to cancel since it's relatively cheap. [Reply]
TLT was up 2.5% yesterday and is up a bit under 4% in premarket. :-):-)
That's some crazy movement for bonds. The 10y treasury is dropping like a rock. Fell from .9 to .76 overnight. We just broke under 1% for the first time in 150 years a few days ago.
At this point the S&P doubles the yield of buying a 10 year treasury. That's a lot of fear for it to bought up so fast the yield dropped that much overnight. [Reply]
