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Old Jun 11, 2013 | 6:56 pm
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Originally Posted by JerryFF
... this forum was filled with clever ideas on how to earn as many miles as possible and use them in the most efficient manner. That was really very helpful to most readers and even if you couldn't use a particular strategy, it made for interesting reading. Perhaps one of the best examples was Pudding Guy.

Now, most of the posts are from folks asking for advice or help either a) what airline should I use for my primary flying, or b) how can I get miles to go from XXX to YYY. Most of these threads are not very useful to most readers nor are they very interesting.

Sorry to be so negative, and I am not sure if anything could, or should, be done to change that.

It is just a personal statement of how boring I am finding this forum, which used to be, for me at least, one of the most interesting in FT. I know, if I am not interested, I can skip reading here, and I do much of the time, but it just makes me a little sad. Maybe it's just a function of the FF business.
+ 1, Fortunately I have been at this for over 10 years and have had many wonderful trips as well as several million miles in the bank. I think the thing that has changed the most is we have many more participants than we had 10 years ago, and the bloggers. This makes the trips more difficult to find and the strategies more short lived. T
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