Originally Posted by
Del Prado
This could be a great time for employees to be allowed to increase their holdings in the company, particularly if any of the airline group want to sell.
As an employee, about the last thing you'd want to do is invest in the company you work for.
Not only is that that a bundling of risks (so when the holes in the cheese line up, you're both out of a job and your stock has gone down - or even to zero) - it's also disadvantageous from the perspective of reducing your ability to trade (because you cannot trade on inside information, and are likely to have blackout periods where you can't sell the stock you own).
Arguably the above doesn't apply to those in control of the company, but that's a handful of people.