It's been a tough year for airline investors, with COVID-19 eating into global travel demand and causing airline stocks to slump.
Given the continued risk caused by the pandemic, it's hard to enthusiastically buy into airline stocks right now. But the underlying need to go from point A to point B has not disappeared, and there are a lot of interesting companies in the business of providing transportation.
Here's why three Fools contributors think AerCap Holdings (NYSE: AER), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), and Ferrari (NYSE: RACE) are better buys than airlines right now.