Originally Posted by
Paralytic
You do realise you're on FT, don't you? Wild speculation is expected, if not mandatory!
Quite right. There is, however a difference between:
(1) "me mate in the pub, yeah, well e's got this bird what e's shaggin' and she's like pickin' up 'er dauter from her ex-boyfriend yeah, and e's like goin' on about on about ow alls his shoppin' at Tesco ain't worth fir nofin' cause like the points you need to get to Lanzarotte is goin' up by like a lot,"
and
(2) "I was talking recently with my brother-in-law, who is the co-head of yield management at BA, and he mentioned during our fondue dinner that the company will add a three-class 777 service to BKK for the next winter timetable because of the high demand for that route from December to March. That should make award redemptions a little easier."