As I've said before, if this were a drug cartel instead of the US Airline and Banking Industry, these 'Stock Buy backs' would be called Money Laundering.

All perfectly legal and approved by our wonderful elected scum in DC, funded by Super PAC's. In India and most other countries, they call it Corruption, here they call it, "Campaign Contributions."

Here's a quick reminder of what Sully said to Congress, re our sacrifices, and the upcoming pilot shortage, which Harwood seems to have forgotten all about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kePiiZ8_YA

(mods, feel free to imbed that clip, I've forgotten the code to do it, thanks!)