That was all I was saying. I did not flame Jae, and indeed said he had been very helpful to me, hence I remembered his name.

As others have said above, the debut post from "Jae" gave them no idea he was in fact "Operations Supervisor, Starwood Preferred Guest". His comments above on Starwood clearly take on a different hue if that title is known. And I repeat my comments that both Hilton AND Starwood are an object lesson to all other brands by their helpful and visible presence on FT and I have no doubt Jae will be no exception to that history.

I still feel all corporate employees might make it clear to all that they are employees by their user handle or state so in their post. The United staff on the UA board, FAs and res. staff alike do that, and they are very helpful.

Please read this thread below from earlier this month - this person was discovered by some sleuthing by EPS to be a paid PR person for the same firm that was being positively "spin doctored" in a FT thread. Surely none of us wants to see this happening, or every FT thread will look like "S.P.A.M." Forum or worse, with PR dumps and press releases from the companies themselves under non obvious user names. This thread below was a blatant ad for that company Priceline.com, and also a first post. FT'ers found out about it and the person has not re-visited - and in that case, a good thing.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/004086.html


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