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Aug 2, 2017, 10:10 am
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...and that is not unexpectedly surprising.
People have chided Delta Air Lines for having an older fleet of aircraft; but their maintenance seems to be second to none — at least, to my untrained eye after visiting its Technical Operations Center several times — to the point where other airlines contract out the maintenance of their aircraft to Delta Air Lines.
Aug 2, 2017, 1:30 pm
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Exactly. The unwashed masses frequently complain about "old planes" when it's clearly not the case. The interior is what these people (who may incorrectly) derive their opinion on how old the aircraft is.
Aug 3, 2017, 1:42 am
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People have chided Delta Air Lines for having an older fleet of aircraft; but their maintenance seems to be second to none — at least, to my untrained eye after visiting its Technical Operations Center several times — to the point where other airlines contract out the maintenance of their aircraft to Delta Air Lines.
Aug 9, 2017, 7:36 pm
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http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2017/...000-miles.html
Yet it's an upcoming trip and the author stated in the comments that she has never been there before (so the trip still hasn't taken place at the time of publishing)
On top of that, the minor grammatical errors in the article indicates that it was never sent to an editor.
But, I'm sure people are going to ask, how do you get to Okinawa for 30k miles? Well, this is a clickbait garbage title. After reading the piece of garbage of an article, you'll realize that the only way to get to Okinawa for 30k miles is to already be in Japan in the first place! What a subpar value for your miles! But here, you can book this on points from all of these credit cards that they're shilling!
How I Flew to Okinawa...
On top of that, the minor grammatical errors in the article indicates that it was never sent to an editor.
But, I'm sure people are going to ask, how do you get to Okinawa for 30k miles? Well, this is a clickbait garbage title. After reading the piece of garbage of an article, you'll realize that the only way to get to Okinawa for 30k miles is to already be in Japan in the first place! What a subpar value for your miles! But here, you can book this on points from all of these credit cards that they're shilling!
Aug 16, 2017, 5:33 pm
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Where do they draw the line for "Frugal?"
http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2017/...t-credits.html
Given how there are actual links to brokers, this might simply be a low-key advertising shill for those brokers.
http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2017/...t-credits.html
Given how there are actual links to brokers, this might simply be a low-key advertising shill for those brokers.
Aug 16, 2017, 8:51 pm
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Where do they draw the line for "Frugal?"
http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2017/...t-credits.html
Given how there are actual links to brokers, this might simply be a low-key advertising shill for those brokers.
http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2017/...t-credits.html
Given how there are actual links to brokers, this might simply be a low-key advertising shill for those brokers.
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Aug 18, 2017, 6:28 am
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It's "interesting" that links to specific miles brokers are generally prohibited on IB's FT site (at least per the mod note in the one running thread about them) and buying/selling miles discussion is prohibited in the CC forum (and rightly so in both instances) but IB's FTG site posts stuff like this. Anything for the clicks!
I would like to think that the original FTG would never have even posted about brokers except to say "don't do it".
(And yes I know that in practice FT sort of sets its own rules through the CD and formerly TB, but ultimately IB could do as it wishes since it owns FT.)
I would like to think that the original FTG would never have even posted about brokers except to say "don't do it".
(And yes I know that in practice FT sort of sets its own rules through the CD and formerly TB, but ultimately IB could do as it wishes since it owns FT.)
Aug 19, 2017, 3:07 am
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It's "interesting" that links to specific miles brokers are generally prohibited on IB's FT site (at least per the mod note in the one running thread about them) and buying/selling miles discussion is prohibited in the CC forum (and rightly so in both instances) but IB's FTG site posts stuff like this. Anything for the clicks!
I really don't think IB aims to have the same set of rules for all their websites.
Aug 19, 2017, 6:43 am
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IB owns a ton of sites (just bought wedMD for example). FTG is 'just' associated with FT by being under the 'home & travel' cluster: http://www.internetbrands.com/our-br...me-and-travel/
I really don't think IB aims to have the same set of rules for all their websites.
I really don't think IB aims to have the same set of rules for all their websites.
That wasn't my point, which was merely that FT has some thought put into its posting principles whereas FTG will write just about anything for the clicks. The fact that they currently share the same "adoptive parent", is just interesting.
But note that FTG isn't "just" under their common travel ownership grouping - it's closely linked with FT. It's a part of the FT home page as one of the regular grouping of post links shown (in the lower left) and FTG posts are also often among the rotation of scrolling features in the larger flash graphic at the very top of the FT home page. So someone, somewhere, at some level, is making a decision to pull FTG content onto FT and it does give an impression of FT endorsement of that content IMHO.
And in this case the FTG post in question was initially featured on the FT front page@:-) Had it not been, I probably wouldn't have made that particular comment in this case.
I understand there's nothing any of us can do about it, just an observation.
Aug 19, 2017, 9:11 am
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I'm aware of IB's scope and of course I wasn't claiming that someone at IB sits around trying to match up every single detail for every site - I'm not an idiot.
That wasn't my point, which was merely that FT has some thought put into its posting principles whereas FTG will write just about anything for the clicks. The fact that they currently share the same "adoptive parent", is just interesting.
But note that FTG isn't "just" under their common travel ownership grouping - it's closely linked with FT. It's a part of the FT home page as one of the regular grouping of post links shown (in the lower left) and FTG posts are also often among the rotation of scrolling features in the larger flash graphic at the very top of the FT home page. So someone, somewhere, at some level, is making a decision to pull FTG content onto FT and it does give an impression of FT endorsement of that content IMHO.
And in this case the FTG post in question was initially featured on the FT front page@:-) Had it not been, I probably wouldn't have made that particular comment in this case.
I understand there's nothing any of us can do about it, just an observation.
That wasn't my point, which was merely that FT has some thought put into its posting principles whereas FTG will write just about anything for the clicks. The fact that they currently share the same "adoptive parent", is just interesting.
But note that FTG isn't "just" under their common travel ownership grouping - it's closely linked with FT. It's a part of the FT home page as one of the regular grouping of post links shown (in the lower left) and FTG posts are also often among the rotation of scrolling features in the larger flash graphic at the very top of the FT home page. So someone, somewhere, at some level, is making a decision to pull FTG content onto FT and it does give an impression of FT endorsement of that content IMHO.
And in this case the FTG post in question was initially featured on the FT front page@:-) Had it not been, I probably wouldn't have made that particular comment in this case.
I understand there's nothing any of us can do about it, just an observation.
Aug 19, 2017, 9:28 pm
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