Originally Posted by
Spiff
RyanAir has no FF program. Therefore OEFFP doesn't make much sense.
EasyJet and Spirit barely have FF programs.
As for organization - easily fixed with a forum header description change, if appropriate. I still think RyanAir, EasyJet, and Spirit belong in Budget Travel. They certainly don't deserve a forum of their own to discuss their small to non-existent FF programs and what little there is to discuss about these airlines themselves is appropriate for Budget Travel. I'm sorry if that offends some people's sensibilities, but that's where I believe they belong.
I agree with you on paper. From purely theoretical perspective, that is what makes the most sense and why I suggested to people to do just that.
It is just that experience tells us that this just does not work. I am not sure what the proper answer to the problem is. But I sure know that closing one's mind in a doctrinaire "that is the way it should be" is perhaps not the most constructive way to go about it.
This has nothing to do with sensibilities but rather with pragmatism and common sense: when something does not work, perhaps one needs to think again rather than pretending that no problem exists and that all is fine and dandy. It may be that changing the description will do the trick. I do not know. I really do not know what the answer to it is. But I sure would like it infinitely better if TB members acknowledged when there is an issue (even if one does not have a satisfactory answer to the problem) rather than pushing the issue under the carpet.
Whether you like or not, it is a
fact that people do not know where to post when they have question about Ryanair and Easyjet and do not tend to post them in the budget travel forum. Just repeating in TB that this is where people should post will not solve that problem. And if someone were to ask me now where to post such a question, I would no longer tell them to post it there because I do not think that it would be sensible for me to tell someone to post in a forum where their chances of getting a useful answer are not very high.