US Airline Industry Stock Buybacks Were $46 Bil in the Past Six Years, $21 Bil Higher Than the $25 Bil Virus Stimulus Cash Bailout It Will Receive. US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Needs To Be Replaced For His Gross Incompetence Here in His Frivolously Spending of US Taxpayer Money. What About the Very Bright and Creative Mark Cuban as His Replacement? Also, the US Congress, Led By Mitch McConnell, Shows Its Lack of Economic Understanding By Voting Unanimously To Let This Strategy Happen: i.e. ..... Rewarding US Corps Making Frivolous Financial-Solvency-Deteriorating Stock Buybacks With Frivolous Cash Bailouts

From SEC Company filings, the below table shows the annual US Stock Buybacks of the ten largest US Airline Industry Companies for each of the past six years.

											Total
	Delta	United	American	Southwest	Alaska	JetBlue	SkyWest	Allegiant	Hawaiian	Spirit	all 10
	Air Lines	Air Lines	Air Lines	Air Lines	Air Lines	Air Lines		Travel	Holdings	Air Lines	Air Lines
	Stock	Stock	Stock	Stock	Stock	Stock	Stock	Stock	Stock	Stock	Stock
Year	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks
	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
2019	2,027	1,645	1,097	1,645	75	542	95	19	69	5	7,219
2018	1,575	1,235	837	1,235	50	382	54	4	103	1	5,476
2017	1,677	1,844	1,615	1,844	75	390	20	90	100	47	7,702
2016	2,601	2,614	4,500	2,614	193	134	-	66	14	103	12,839
2015	2,200	1,233	3,846	1,233	505	241	19	129	40	112	9,558
2014	1,100	312	1,062	312	348	82	8	139	-	2	3,365
Total Six Years	11,180	8,883	12,957	8,883	1,246	1,771	196	447	326	270	46,159