Now that November has rolled around, holiday travelers are already bracing themselves for nightmarish holiday airport crowds. The holiday travel season, running from Thanksgiving through New Year’s, is one of the busiest travel periods of the year.
All those holiday travelers are great news for the “Big Four” U.S. airline companies: Delta Air Lines, Inc. DAL 0.6%, Southwest Airlines Co LUV 0.55%, American Airlines Group Inc AAL and United Continental Holdings Inc UAL 0.74%. But how well has the holiday travel season treated airline investors?
In Review
Benzinga took a look back at how the Big Four airline stocks have performed from November 16 through January 15 in each of the past eight years.
As it turns out, airline investors have had mostly happy holidays since 2008. While the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY 0.2% has averaged only a 0.3 percent gain during the two-month period since 2008, the Big Four airline stocks have delivered an average gain of 13.6 percent.
The top holiday performer in the past eight years has been Delta, which has averaged an impressive 20.8 percent two-month gain. Delta has delivered…
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