2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting - Part 2 - Q&A
“American Airlines, and Delah Airlines, and Southwest Airlines, and United Continental”
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2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting - Part 2 - Q&A
“American Airlines, and Delah Airlines, and Southwest Airlines, and United Continental”
2019 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“21,938,642 United Continental Holdings Inc. .............. 8 . 7 1,195 1,933”
Buffett: We need to help free trade's "roadkill" | March 28, 2019
“you now own major stakes in american united southwest and and in the most recent filings”
2018 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“21,938,642 United Continental Holdings Inc. .............. 8 . 1 1,195 1,837”
Afternoon Session - 2018 Meeting
“In the case, I think, of both American Airlines and United Continental. We, unless there's something unusual, we're going to stay under 10%.”
Buffett's health care partnership is "determined" to contain costs | February 26, 2018
“Right now you have four major airlines... It's United Delta American and Southwest, right? Those are the four big ones.”
Buying Apple, selling IBM, missing Google | May 8, 2017
“through Berkshire, the largest investor in four major airlines, including United. And we have seen the troubles at United”
Buying Apple, selling IBM, missing Google | May 8, 2017
“United has had some employees that have been unhappy since the merger. They've had some issues, some legacy issues”
Buying Apple, selling IBM, missing Google | May 8, 2017
“More than 70% of the airlines, the flights that originated out of Newark are United Airlines flights. I don't have a choice when that's my home”
Buying Apple, selling IBM, missing Google | May 8, 2017
“U.S. Air, we had a lot of planes out in the desert. And if you get a lot of planes out of the desert, you've got problems.”
Morning Session - 2017 Meeting
“United Airlines and customer service issues... we're the largest airlines, and that is much more of an industry thought”
Morning Session - 2017 Meeting
“all four of the major airlines are buying in stock at fairly low multiples... all four of the companies we have will have higher revenues”
Buffett buys airlines and Apple | February 27, 2017
“the four majors. That would be American, Delta, United Continental, and Southwest.”
Buffett buys airlines and Apple | February 27, 2017
“I made it on U.S. Air back in the late 80s and it looked like it was very, very, very, they passed the dividend”
2016 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“26,620,184 United Continental Holdings Inc. ............... 8.4 1,477 1,940”
Buffett sees "gradual improvement" in economy | May 6, 2013
“It's not like flying for Delta, for United, and you're getting on a 737. It doesn't matter where you are.”
2007 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“when I had Berkshire buy U.S. Air preferred stock in 1989. As the ink was drying on our check, the company went into a tailspin, and before long our preferred dividend was no longer being paid.”
How Executive Jet has done better than airlines
“The NetJets service is not really designed to be competitive with the United Airlines or an American or something of that sort”
Morning Session - 2001 Meeting
“if you're running a big airline, a day. Delta or United or whatever, if your costs are on parity or less labor costs”
Morning Session - 2001 Meeting
“NetJets service is not really designed to be competitive with United Airlines or an American or something of that sort”
Morning Session - 2001 Meeting
“the fractional jet ownership program, which has been announced for United Airlines, I find that very interesting”
Afternoon Session - 1998 Meeting
“we never bought American or United or Delver or any other airline. It is not a business that intrigues us.”
Afternoon Session - 1998 Meeting
“Charlie and I sat on U.S. Air, and the decisions would come along... you're running out of money, and yet to play the game... you just have to continually make these decisions... with no idea of what ”
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 1997
“US Airways Group, Inc. ("US Air") preferred stock originally cost $12 million; that figure was adjusted down to $3 million when we decided in 1994 that an other-than-temporary decline in value had occ”
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 1997
“our $12 million US Air holding was at yearend 1997 worth about $7.2 million more than we paid”
Morning Session - 1997 Meeting
“I have a friend who's a United Airlines pilot, and he has recently been promoted into the 747-400”
Afternoon Session - 1996 Meeting
“First of all, I'd like to have your comments on the U.S. Air Preferred that there are several quarters and rears on.”
Morning Session - 1995 Meeting
“preferred shares of several companies solomon u.s air american express”
Afternoon Session - 1994 Meeting
“Now you can ask about U.S. Air, and that is one we would have been welded duck.”
Morning Session - 1994 Meeting
“In the last year, United Airlines and Northwest, have resolved some of their financial problems by moving ownership over to the employees.”