The long boring details of my trip to Italy (with pictures) can be found at my website but there was one piece of my trip that was very FT related so I'll share it here.

I was in the Cinque Terre, waiting for a train and I struck up a conversation with two american guys (Tim and HArvey) from Denver. We struck up a conversation which led to "what brought you to Italy". I explained about the $20 BA fares, and how I had found it through my participation here. As I talked about the premise of the board, the great deals, the quest for and benefits of airline status, etc..I could see that Tim was mildly interested, asking questions and being appropriately impressed at some of the opportunities, but Harvey "GOT IT". We spent most the rest of train trip and most of the hike the hike through the ?Cinque Terre discussing the board, and he wrote the site name down so he could check it out when he got back. So, I'll be looking his first post soon!

Welcome to FT Harvey from Denver!

And in other flight related info...

I found WT+ a great deal for $20 (obviously) but I really don't think its worth the $1000 more that the trip would have priced out at opposed to travelling in regular coach. Bulkhead seating really made it much more comfortable, since we could use the bassinet tables for our drinks and food trays, rather than the confining lap trays.

Also, the ground staff in Italy can't be called the brightest. I asked to move out of my 21F seat into a window or aisle TWICE, and two different agents (and a passenger who thought he knew everything) insisted that I was already IN an aisle seat. Lo and behold, it was the middle seat that I knew it to be, but once on the plane, there was nothing that I could do as the flight was completely full.