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rickair7777 06-20-2018 06:03 AM


Originally Posted by Sniper66 (Post 2617730)
You sold your employers stock
Skywest

I never touched that :confused: Holding stock in the place you work is a bad idea... sets you up to be broke AND unemployed. If you get an option, and sell short-term that's OK, but bad idea to hold it in your portfolio.

Bugaboo 06-20-2018 04:21 PM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 2617853)
I never touched that :confused: Holding stock in the place you work is a bad idea... sets you up to be broke AND unemployed. If you get an option, and sell short-term that's OK, but bad idea to hold it in your portfolio.

So I guess it was a real bad idea to hold on to the ESPP shares I bought from 2014-2017 while at Skywest?
Majority were bought for under $20 a share and Skywest is at $58 now?

Quick....whats the Computershare number?!:)

rickair7777 06-20-2018 05:04 PM


Originally Posted by Bugaboo (Post 2618328)
So I guess it was a real bad idea to hold on to the ESPP shares I bought from 2014-2017 while at Skywest?
Majority were bought for under $20 a share and Skywest is at $58 now?

Quick....whats the Computershare number?!:)

If you left SKW, then you're not holding stock in your employer.

Just because you did something dumb and got lucky doesn't make it smart.

Bugaboo 06-20-2018 07:16 PM


Originally Posted by rickair7777 (Post 2618373)
If you left SKW, then you're not holding stock in your employer.

Just because you did something dumb and got lucky doesn't make it smart.

Doesn't seem so dumb to me:)
This is why I never sold it. I don't consider it luck.....dont hate on a good plan.

Av8rRr 10-21-2018 06:44 PM

Any word on the street recently? It’s been crickets...

ShyGuy 10-21-2018 10:09 PM

Apparently the rumor is no merger with jetblue cause we’d be too big then :confused:

CaptCoolHand 10-22-2018 04:57 AM


Originally Posted by ShyGuy (Post 2695607)
Apparently the rumor is no merger with jetblue cause we’d be too big then :confused:

That’s unfortunate that if we merged we’d become a mega super carrier!

No one would be able to compete against our super huge route structure.
Maybe except for those other four airlines that would still be two or three or four times bigger than a combined AKJB. 😂😂

WHACKMASTER 10-22-2018 09:18 AM


Originally Posted by ShyGuy (Post 2695607)
Apparently the rumor is no merger with jetblue cause we’d be too big then :confused:

Bull$7!t. You’d be a lot smaller than the Legacies when they got married.

rickair7777 10-22-2018 09:58 AM


Originally Posted by WHACKMASTER (Post 2695816)
Bull$7!t. You’d be a lot smaller than the Legacies when they got married.

Yeah, I don't think the current administration would block numbers 5 & 6 from merging to become number 5. Especially with minimal route structure overlap.

ImperialxRat 10-22-2018 10:28 AM

He probably meant we would be too big for AK management to handle the new company. Too difficult to manage things outside Seattle when that large.


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