The bloggers are wearing me out re: Cheap fares on LCC to Europe
Feb 24, 2017, 7:13 pm
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The bloggers are wearing me out re: Cheap fares on LCC to Europe
If one more blogger post a tease headline with a $65 fare from the USA to Europe, I'm going to explode.
There was a time when the 'tease' was more realistic. These days, the clickbait and $65 one-way fares are getting dangerously close to the edge. Oldtimers around here are fed up with the likes of all the travel bloggers.
What's your opinion?
dh
There was a time when the 'tease' was more realistic. These days, the clickbait and $65 one-way fares are getting dangerously close to the edge. Oldtimers around here are fed up with the likes of all the travel bloggers.
What's your opinion?
dh
Feb 24, 2017, 7:16 pm
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I think there's more to come. Wait until Wow and Norwegian come out with a U.S. credit card product that can be pumped by bloggers. Get ready for the next round.
Feb 24, 2017, 9:51 pm
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If one more blogger post a tease headline with a $65 fare from the USA to Europe, I'm going to explode.
There was a time when the 'tease' was more realistic. These days, the clickbait and $65 one-way fares are getting dangerously close to the edge. Oldtimers around here are fed up with the likes of all the travel bloggers.
What's your opinion?
dh
There was a time when the 'tease' was more realistic. These days, the clickbait and $65 one-way fares are getting dangerously close to the edge. Oldtimers around here are fed up with the likes of all the travel bloggers.
What's your opinion?
dh
Feb 25, 2017, 3:24 am
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DY is on an aggressive marketing campaign, they even had a multipage insert in Monocle last month. VFTW was pumping 99$ wizz fares to Iceland years ago, my feeling is that there is some marketing budget at play.
Feb 25, 2017, 6:46 am
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If one more blogger post a tease headline with a $65 fare from the USA to Europe, I'm going to explode.
There was a time when the 'tease' was more realistic. These days, the clickbait and $65 one-way fares are getting dangerously close to the edge. Oldtimers around here are fed up with the likes of all the travel bloggers.
What's your opinion?
dh
There was a time when the 'tease' was more realistic. These days, the clickbait and $65 one-way fares are getting dangerously close to the edge. Oldtimers around here are fed up with the likes of all the travel bloggers.
What's your opinion?
dh
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Feb 25, 2017, 8:03 am
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What iz de issue with this scubadu guy, is he one of them bloggers? :-)
I want to see the deleted post by Raffles!
Doing posts like these are so easy even a robot can do it...and take a break for the next "Last Chance to apply for X card"....until the next one that is!
I want to see the deleted post by Raffles!
Doing posts like these are so easy even a robot can do it...and take a break for the next "Last Chance to apply for X card"....until the next one that is!
Feb 25, 2017, 10:32 am
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I don't waste my time, and never have, reading blogs.
At the beginning, they were doing it for the fun of it and getting almost all their info from FT. Now they're in it for money, and hence, the click bait articles.
I agree with you Dan ^
At the beginning, they were doing it for the fun of it and getting almost all their info from FT. Now they're in it for money, and hence, the click bait articles.
I agree with you Dan ^
Feb 25, 2017, 10:42 am
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There must be lots of new readers, because I know the 'regulars' can't be opening the thread.
dh
Feb 25, 2017, 10:46 am
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Anyway I think it's also a reflection of the dwindling content that the P&M bloggers have to post about in these devalued twilight days of FFPs.
Feb 25, 2017, 12:39 pm
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Feb 25, 2017, 8:04 pm
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I've long learned that when dan talks I listen... or else risk get thrown off the bus
Feb 26, 2017, 3:29 pm
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