Boarding Area's Fall
Aug 29, 2014, 7:44 pm
#151
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Park, CO
Programs: Tegridy Elite
Posts: 5,678
As a language pedant of just about the highest order, I must defend myself from this "almost universal" accusation.
I'm not going to comment on other blogs, but I can assure you that the utmost attention is paid to the quality of the (English) English on my particular patch.
By all means come and have a look
. I may have limited appeal to the Americans out there, but I do aim to give a coherent and irritation-free read. I also promise to keep stories about faeces to an absolute minimum.
I'm not going to comment on other blogs, but I can assure you that the utmost attention is paid to the quality of the (English) English on my particular patch.
By all means come and have a look
. I may have limited appeal to the Americans out there, but I do aim to give a coherent and irritation-free read. I also promise to keep stories about faeces to an absolute minimum.Which one?
Aug 29, 2014, 8:56 pm
#153
Original Member, Ambassador: External Miles and Points Resources
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in LIMA, PERU
Posts: 58,611
Aug 29, 2014, 11:29 pm
#154
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 48,182
Ok, Oliver2002, you made me laugh. The German writing sucks? The writing in English on Boarding Area is almost universally horrible, ungrammatical and (sometimes) even incoherent and, no, I don't just mean that certain Atlanta-centric blog. Sentences run on, they don't use periods. Non-sentence sentences. What's this possessive thing with gerunds, and what's a gerund anyway? I try to look past it all for the occasional nugget.
Aug 30, 2014, 7:41 am
#155
Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Park, CO
Programs: Tegridy Elite
Posts: 5,678
Wow, and here I thought OMAAT really knew how to milk a trip - she has him beat!
I guess Astrophsx is just one of the Angrys now!
Aug 30, 2014, 7:44 am
#156
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: IAD/DCA
Posts: 31,797
Aug 30, 2014, 8:58 am
#157
Join Date: Dec 2004
Programs: UA-1K, MM, Hilton-Diamond, Marriott-Titanium
Posts: 4,432
I guess when you don't have anything original to post (not counting asking about giving Ambien to your kids) you just milk one trip for all you can. There are no standards at BA sadly. I do not read her blog and you have reaffirmed that I made the correct choice.
Aug 30, 2014, 12:41 pm
#158
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 26,871
I have been trying to use trips as a springboard for other discussion - using a Lufty domestic J as a way of comparing seat pitch with BA's new offering, or using a Hilton Munich stay to discuss how Hilton generally gives elite benefits on 3rd party stays (which that was).
Aug 30, 2014, 4:22 pm
#159
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: IAD/DCA
Posts: 31,797
I have 'moved on' to some extent from trip reports unless there is a good reason to cover something. That would be, for eg, a particularly interesting flight or a hotel where my readers may actually go.
I have been trying to use trips as a springboard for other discussion - using a Lufty domestic J as a way of comparing seat pitch with BA's new offering, or using a Hilton Munich stay to discuss how Hilton generally gives elite benefits on 3rd party stays (which that was).
I have been trying to use trips as a springboard for other discussion - using a Lufty domestic J as a way of comparing seat pitch with BA's new offering, or using a Hilton Munich stay to discuss how Hilton generally gives elite benefits on 3rd party stays (which that was).
but i get the impression a lot of people like reading (and writing) the same premium cabin discussion. i dont recall seeing a lot of actual service discussion, comparison, etc. although its clear from FT discussion that people do pay attention to crews, routes, directions (ex certain cities) etc.
Aug 30, 2014, 6:52 pm
#160
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: DFW
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold, Admirals Club, Global Entry
Posts: 1,141
Like Oliver2002, I'm afraid I just skip most of BA these days and so I hadn't even seen TheEUFlyer. I'll have to start stopping by to see how the EU travel cognoscenti really live! On the blogger trip report front, I hardly know where to begin. Points & Pixie Dust is usually very skippable, I'll agree, but at least she really does know Paris. One of the other bloggers got confused (I kid you not) just taking the RER into the city from CDG. Anyway, my favorite kind of "trip report" posts tend to be the more offbeat ones where humor somehow emerges from foursquare disaster, and I think "us[ing] trips as a springboard for other discussion" is also a great idea.
Aug 31, 2014, 7:12 pm
#161
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 1,129
Sep 1, 2014, 5:58 am
#162
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: DFW
Programs: AA EXP, mid-tier with pretty much everyone else
Posts: 873
It took me almost two months to finish my current trip report from a trip in June, simply because I've been swamped at Real Work and haven't had the time to finish it (I don't earn a cent from my blog yet).
I don't particularly enjoy writing trip reports, but they get the most views. I've done a few (in my opinion) really good posts about travel in general and they did well for a day or two, but on days where I don't post anything my "residual clicks" come from trip reports.
I don't particularly enjoy writing trip reports, but they get the most views. I've done a few (in my opinion) really good posts about travel in general and they did well for a day or two, but on days where I don't post anything my "residual clicks" come from trip reports.
Sep 1, 2014, 10:18 am
#163
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: DFW
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold, Admirals Club, Global Entry
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Some threads on FlyerTalk are completely addictive in a not-so-edifying sort of way: I keep coming back again and again just to see the train wrecks. Sometimes this stuff is pure greatness. I love visiting the AA "Busted Selling Miles" and the Delta "DYKWIA" threads, for two examples, but I have to admit that maybe this thread is my favorite. Does it get any better than the post JpetekYXMD80 links to together with "Whatever would we do without you, Gary"? If anyone's found anything better in this genre -- anything -- let me know!
Sep 1, 2014, 12:14 pm
#164
Original Member, Ambassador: External Miles and Points Resources
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in LIMA, PERU
Posts: 58,611
Some threads on FlyerTalk are completely addictive in a not-so-edifying sort of way: I keep coming back again and again just to see the train wrecks. Sometimes this stuff is pure greatness. I love visiting the AA "Busted Selling Miles" and the Delta "DYKWIA" threads, for two examples, but I have to admit that maybe this thread is my favorite. Does it get any better than the post JpetekYXMD80 links to together with "Whatever would we do without you, Gary"? If anyone's found anything better in this genre -- anything -- let me know!
Sep 2, 2014, 7:41 am
#165
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: DFW
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold, Admirals Club, Global Entry
Posts: 1,141
I hate being serious for a moment but this morning I came across what I think is the worst blog post that I've ever read by anyone, anywhere: Points and Pixie Dust's "My advice? Stay away from the Louvre in Paris." Apparently what is incontestably, beyond peradventure, one of the world's best museums can get very crowded in August and so you shouldn't go there -- at all. The accompanying photo, predictably enough, shows a big room full of camera-toting tourists snapping away in front of the Mona Lisa. What more need be said?