Raytheon Technologies, known now as RTX, will gamble a portion of its future on stock buybacks that will increase the stock price (and thereby compensation for senior executives with stock options.) Stock buybacks are good when funded from earnings and…
The airline industry seems to be pushing for ever more bandwidth on their aircraft. An early pioneer in this is Lufthansa which was among the first airlines to sign up for Boeing Connexion. Even after that program was abandoned, Lufthansa…
Air travel is a very safe mode of travel, with few accidents and a trend line that points to increasing safety year by year. The following chart shows worldwide airline fatalities per million passengers from 1976 through 2014. The trend…
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