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IMHO anybody buying or selling "uncovered calls" with ANY airline stock, should get their basement checked for excessive radon.......and quickly.

And I am not certain re the NYT editorial either. I went to college with one of the nice (actually) Rockefellers, and he seemed to have mega-more savings than the average guy on campus. The St Joe Paper people are still coining it big in Florida per article in the NYT last week, etc. Not for the long-term average six-pack-joe individual investor though. Combo of mega-union and mega-government rules, regulations, laws etc has ground them all down (ie forty years to get fireman off diesel trains?). The bottom line is the original family usually makes-out and few others.