Energy: Can Alaska Air Group Rebound From Its Fall From Grace
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week a Virgin America plane took its last flight under the Virgin umbrella. With the unification of the two brands complete, and a rocky 2017 behind them, can the airline operator start to right the ship in 2018?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:06.4 | Today we're talking energy and industrials. |
| 0:08.4 | It is Thursday the 26th of April. |
| 0:10.9 | Today we're going to be talking about Alaska Air Group. I'm your host |
| 0:14.2 | Sarah Priestley and joining me on Skype is senior Motley for contributor Adam Levine |
| 0:18.8 | Wien-Wenberg. Hey Adam. Hi Sarah, how are you? I'm good, thank you. I was just explaining to you before we started recording about the miserable rain and prolonged winter that we've been here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, it's unfortunate. |
| 0:34.0 | It's much sunier here in California. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, maybe I just need to take a trip to California. |
| 0:40.0 | Well today we're actually talking about a company that could make that possible. |
| 0:46.0 | It's an airline and one that has been in the news for a couple of reasons this past week. |
| 0:51.0 | So one is because they had an unexpected beat on |
| 0:53.7 | earnings and the other is because they announced a crackdown on emotional support |
| 0:57.3 | animals which by all accounts had apparently gotten out of hand so there you go but |
| 1:01.6 | anyway Alaska Air Group is a West Coast |
| 1:05.4 | airline operator that some of you may not be familiar with. Adam, I've never |
| 1:09.2 | actually flown with Alaska, but I guess you being on the West Coast, have you |
| 1:12.2 | used them before? |
| 1:14.0 | Not very frequently but yes I have some with them a couple of times. |
| 1:17.3 | How would you rate your in-flight experience with Alaska? |
| 1:21.6 | It's very good. I mean it's nothing fancy, but they are very good at what they do |
| 1:26.7 | in terms of getting you to your destination on time and that's really the most important thing |
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