Originally Posted by
SFOSpiff
One suggestion, folks, let's keep the big floods of complaints for the things that matter. If they get the same number of complaints because they try to take away the heated nuts or hot towels in F, they're going to stop listening to us!
Crazy as it may sound, it seems to me that FTers on this board are (at least collectively) a pretty rational bunch. Sure, we
complain all kinds of little things -- where would we be without rants?
-- but we don't go
ballistic about minor things that impact few people. You show me a thread with hundreds of compaint posts and tens of thousands of views, and I'd say you're looking at something that by definition "matters." A quick review of the top threads of all time by posts shows the following "complaint" topics (in descending order of # of posts):
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-blocking.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...hanges-ua.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...nited-com.html
This thread
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ts-merged.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-pay-deal.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...cies-fees.html
I'd say these are pretty significant topics.
I'm not sure I agree - I think 2011 is going to be swimming in CR-1's. Yes, there were no DEQM promos in 2009, but those 2009 promos created a lot of 2010 1K's, and they've been earning CR-1's all year, including this quarter. I think you're going to see a huge swell of CR-1's in use through Q3 of 2012, and maybe a lull, before that year's 1K's start earning them at 75k+.
Hmmm. Good point. I would add, though, that the
priority of many of these CR-1s is going to drop on Feb. 1 when many of these 1K lites lose their status.