After years of criticizing airline stocks (he once referred to them as a “death trap for investors”), Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) bought the big four airlines — Southwest (NYSE: LUV), Delta (NYSE: DAL), American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL), and United (NYSE: UAL) — last year. Buffett was asked about it at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting, and he shared his reasoning. Here’s our summary of that.
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