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PhilKol	don't like airlines	Hate	September 04, 2009
Wundrwomn1	AIRLINES	Hate	August 09, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"I've never recommending an airline and I'm not going to now." (<a href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10510709/1/mad-money-lightning-round-ride-with-nordic-american-tanker.html" target="_blank">"Mad Money Lightning Round," 6-8-09</a>)	Love	June 09, 2009
ChrisJr03	It never does anything and as an investor, that just isn't enough. It goes up a little then down a little, no excitement.	Hate	May 20, 2009
Dave Weed	Airline exposure	Love	April 10, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"I will not recommend an airline on this show. No airline stocks."	Love	January 27, 2009
gfoote	Down a bit since purchase but I fly the airline monthly.	Love	December 23, 2008
barrons3	Airline shares have been pummeled of late, including Southwest Airlines, which is down about 35%, to $7 and change. But next year's earnings could rally 50%, according to analysts, and the company's balance sheet looks healthy.	Love	December 13, 2008
barrons2	Q: You hold Continental Airlines [CAL] and Southwest Airlines [LUV]. Why go near such a difficult sector? A: We look at a cyclical industry like this partly on its fundamentals. We are always investing when there is a great deal of pain and a great deal of front-page bad news. Clearly, we have that list of woes here, with high jet-fuel prices causing billions of dollars of losses in this industry. What we want to do is focus on companies that we believe are well down the line in terms of bankruptcy risk. In our view, other airlines are much closer to bankruptcy than Southwest or Continental if fuel prices stay where they are. So we focus on companies that -- if they can survive the downturn -- are going to come out much, much stronger. Southwest Airlines is clearly that way. It still has a very low debt-to-capital ratio, and has some strength because it has been able to hedge some of its jet-fuel costs. Also, it can gain pretty much as much market share as it wants, and it continues to be a low-cost carrier. When the industry comes out of this downturn, it will be smaller, and Southwest will emerge with more market share.	Love	July 19, 2008
High Dividends	6	Love	June 08, 2008
TashuaResearch	Weak industry, poor profit margin. Fuel	Hate	June 08, 2008
cbrenny	airline	Hate	March 29, 2008
rutheh	falls when you expect growth	Hate	March 03, 2008
Stallion5306	Best airline, but poor stock performer	Hate	March 01, 2008
rexmac	LOVE this business	Love	February 20, 2008
bootlacer	uptrend	Love	February 16, 2008
tctornado	slow mover	Hate	February 02, 2008
DTACCOP	solid company specifice service	Love	February 01, 2008
sarah z	The airliner based out of Dallas announced a new plan to repurchase $500 million in common stock. Based on yesterday's close price of $11.98 this represents about 41.7 million shares. The company said the repurchases will take place on the open market, from time to time, and did not provide an expiration date. In addition the company declared a quarterly dividend of $.0045 per share. Vice Chairman and CEO, Gary C. Kelly said, "Demonstrating our confidence in the future of Southwest Airlines and our continued commitment to enhance Shareholder value, the Board of Directors is pleased to announce our 126th consecutive dividend and a $500 million common stock repurchase authorization. This authorization represents the sixth program to be authorized since January 2006. Over the past two years, we have repurchased 116 million shares of common stock for a total of $1.8 billion." Yesterday, January 23rd, Southwest reported positive earnings with profit nearly doubling. Net income came in at $111 million or 15 cents a share, compared to $57 million or 7 cents a share, in the same period last year. Revenue jumped to $2.49 billion from $2.28 billion. Although, the company did warn that rising fuel costs will hurt this quarter’s profit. The airliner reported traffic statistics which showed the company flew 5.7 billion revenue passenger miles (RPM) in December 2007, compared to 5.5 billion RPM in December 2006. For the fourth quarter RPM increased 4.2% and jumped 6.8% for the full year. Credit Suisse maintained its outperform rating on the stock and said, “Southwest has the industry’s best business model; growth prospects are as good today as ever given the carrier's significant cost advantage to legacy carriers and its much stronger balance sheet.”	Love	January 23, 2008
barrons2	The stock, now around $11.50, is below where it stood after Sept. 11, 2001. Southwest could pick up attractive assets cheaply if rivals flounder.	Love	January 05, 2008
stockfarmer	The airline industry is a terrible place to try to make money, I know I work in it. If a company as well-run as Southwest can't increase their stock price you know the sector is a black hole. Stay away from airlines!	Hate	January 02, 2008
Zbillz1	'07, industry, Fuel costs	Hate	December 31, 2007
barrons2	"The Allegiant team bought the stock at 15, and it trades today for 13 and change. Santelli thinks it could rebound to the high teens, especially if the company meets Wall Street's profit expectations of 79 cents a share for 2008 and $1.04 for '09."	Love	November 10, 2007
tilak	southwest airlines co	Love	October 09, 2007
LongTermInvest.blogspot.com	Buy Below: 15	Love	October 05, 2007
gmease	The strongest position in the travel segment.	Love	September 03, 2007
Anton Kaminsky	I LUV southwest. Taking it here with stops at 15.	Love	August 15, 2007
kohky26	Southwest Airlines Co.	Love	August 01, 2007
rseidens	Airline has outperformed sector and has consistently provided better-than-expected growth and profitability	Love	July 26, 2007
marla17	I like flying Southwest, and the planes are always full. They've been doing well in the market and the profit outlook is good.	Love	July 20, 2007