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TDRH (99.85)

I don't like Airlines.

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August 11, 2008 – Comments (9) | RELATED TICKERS: UAUA.DL , AAMRQ , CAL.DL

Yes the price of oil is falling, but the number of flights are being reduced but their fixed costs and overhead remain the same.  Nickel and diming passengers is not going to make it up.   Market is saturated and needs to adjust for the shift in demand for their services.

 

 

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#1) On August 11, 2008 at 2:28 PM, kdakota630 (33.79) wrote:

I totally agree, but they're KILLING my score!

I'm a good candidate for coldest 1-day player at the moment.  I used to be ranked 50th! 

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#2) On August 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM, DemonDoug (98.93) wrote:

I think i've lost about 1000 points on airlines alone :P.

anyway china, olympics, oil demand up later, blah blah airlines dead.

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#3) On August 11, 2008 at 4:05 PM, LordZ wrote:

Unless they happen to also own an oil field, most of these airlines will go bankrupt.

Can anyone name an airline that hasn't and is going to be profitable ?

 

 

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#4) On August 11, 2008 at 9:57 PM, MaskedMan2007 (99.37) wrote:

I am taking a close look at airlines stocks lately. I opened few outperform calls for a short timeframe. Will do it in my real life portfolio too if my technical criteria are met in the next few weeks.

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#5) On August 11, 2008 at 10:26 PM, TDRH (99.85) wrote:

LordZ,   I actually like SWST.   The others are all killing my score. 

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#6) On August 12, 2008 at 9:36 PM, TheWaveIsComing (< 20) wrote:

I owned Hawaiian Holdings for a little bit...it seems to do well relative to the other ones.  Recently I just jumped into United and am up about 37% in about a week... As was said above, long term, these things are goners, but I can't resist the short term extreme negative sentiment. 

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#7) On August 13, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Collin757 (< 20) wrote:

Coulda made a killing following this blog and shorting em!

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#8) On August 14, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Niteski (< 20) wrote:

The best way to become a Billionaire is to start w/ much more thana billion and buy airlines.

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#9) On August 18, 2008 at 10:29 PM, dexion10 (27.97) wrote:

I am still mad I didn't green thumb U.S. Airways - a very smart quantitative fund manager told me he thought it could be a 10 bagger if oil prices fell - he was close to being right.

That said... let me now say (as if I was a southwest airlines commercial) ... "You are now free to short the airlines"

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