http://finance.yahoo.com/news/alaska...120000705.html
"Significantly higher revenues driven by strong demand, our growing route network and our preferred product led to a record second quarter profit," CEO Brad Tilden said. "Our people are doing a terrific job, and I want to thank them for running a safe operation, taking great care of our customers and producing these excellent results."
Kind of hard to make the argument that the beancounters don't know what they are doing if they're raking in cash and beating that 10% ROIC figure they talked about a few years ago...
Achieved trailing twelve-month return on invested capital of 12.3 percent, compared to 11.5 percent in the twelve months ended June 30, 2011.