Originally Posted by
UGBSM
Stock buy backs and dividends are one of many ways company executives give themselves a raise. We should be getting paid (partly) in stock or stock options also if they are going to do this at this level.
I've seen this a few times lately. Not necessarily opposed to it, but it reminds me a bit of the "they should be putting part of our compensation in physical gold" demand that was going around during C2012. Just because DAL stock and options are doing well now doesn't mean they will be doing well 3-6 years out.
If you think DAL stock and options are the best thing out there, you can always take your cash compensation and buy them. With 12000+ of us there are 12000+ versions of what the best way to use our compensation is. Why would you want it in anything other than cold hard cash that you can do anything you like with?