How about a forum for airline employee flyers?
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How about a forum for airline employee flyers?
I think it would be a good idea to have a forum dedicated to the topic of airline employee flyers. It would be cool to have a place to discuss the intricacies of airline employee travel such as ZED fares, ID90, experiences on interline deals, etc.
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I agree. It's a good ideia.
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Airline employee flyers themselves would probably be opposed to it unless it were a private forum. In my experience, they are very hesitant to discuss those matters in a public forum.
Airline employee flyers themselves would probably be opposed to it unless it were a private forum. In my experience, they are very hesitant to discuss those matters in a public forum.
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Airline employee flyers themselves would probably be opposed to it unless it were a private forum. In my experience, they are very hesitant to discuss those matters in a public forum.[/QUOTE]
Your right, a private forum would be nice but a public forum on this website would open them up to a lot of criticism from those who believe they get everything free, which they don't. There are service charges and taxes and fuel surcharges etc. and (try standing by for 5 days in HNL and paying for 5 extra hotel nights.) I did and could have bought a full fare ticket had I known it was going to be a nightmare.
Anyhow they have other websites to go to that they can discuss airline travel.
Airline employee flyers themselves would probably be opposed to it unless it were a private forum. In my experience, they are very hesitant to discuss those matters in a public forum.[/QUOTE]
Your right, a private forum would be nice but a public forum on this website would open them up to a lot of criticism from those who believe they get everything free, which they don't. There are service charges and taxes and fuel surcharges etc. and (try standing by for 5 days in HNL and paying for 5 extra hotel nights.) I did and could have bought a full fare ticket had I known it was going to be a nightmare.
Anyhow they have other websites to go to that they can discuss airline travel.
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Creation of new forums pretty much falls within the purview of TalkBoard. They're still trying to come to agreement on some criteria for opening/closing forums after recent threads suggesting that the recently opened Senior Travel forum and Traveling with Pets forums be closed due to underutilization.
If you can identify a bunch of existing threads on employee travel scattered across FT I'd suggest you start a new thread in the TalkBoard forum and see where it goes. Link those threads so the TalkBoard can see the interest and make your case.
If you can identify a bunch of existing threads on employee travel scattered across FT I'd suggest you start a new thread in the TalkBoard forum and see where it goes. Link those threads so the TalkBoard can see the interest and make your case.
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FYI. OP did start a TB thread on this topic, on the very same day this thread was up & using the same thread title.