Airline stocks suffer broad selloff, even at the kick off of the busiest holiday travel days

Shares of airlines are broadly lower Tuesday, despite the day being the start of the busiest travel days of what the Transportation Security Administration expects to be the “busiest ever” holiday travel season. The U.S. Global Jets ETF JETS dropped 1.7% in afternoon trading, the day after closing at a six-week high. Within the Dow Jones Transportation Average DJT, the top six decliners are the index’s six airline components: Shares of JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU shed 4.1%, of American Airlines Group Inc. AAL slid 2.0%, of Southwest Airlines Co. LUV gave up 2.0%, of Alaska Air Group Inc. ALK lost 2.0%, of Delta Air Lines…