Originally Posted by
cblaisd
No big objection here, but don't see any big need either. It's pretty obvious that topics about airlines/hotels go in those forums.
For some yes but for others no. I posted this over in the private TB forum
I was having a discussion on this very subject with one of our moderators about this just over a month ago and I had proposed this based on our discussion and being old and bald

, I simply forgot about it
As you know, the Airline Forums are named for their respective Frequent Flier programs and from my understanding, this is because “way back when” the goal was miles & points but I have noticed that a good number of new threads started by new members regarding a specific airline, but which are not related to miles or points for that airline’s FF program, get posted in Forums like TravelBuzz and either get RBP’d and moved to the correct airline’s forum for better exposure or live to die in the forum they are posted in if not reported.
As an example, I reported
this thread (along with reporting many others of a similar nature in the past) started by a new member (and their first post) as it was about Southwest’s luggage size but it was originally posted to TravelBuzz where imho, the Op would not get a good enough answer to their question. As a result of my RBP, I rec’d a thank you e-mail from one of the TravelBuzz Moderators but the e-mail also referenced that this is an all too common problem because many new members think the airline forums are specifically for only frequent flier program topics as opposed to “everything about the airline and it’s FF program” and asked me what I thought about a name change for the Airline Forums as with the proposed change, it might help new members and also help alleviate the moderators having to move misplaced threads.
I personally think this is a good idea and my preference would be:
"Airline Name (including "<FFP Name>)"
or
"Airline Name (and <FFP Name>)
or even
"Airline Name (and all things <FFP Name>)"
And with this, i would also include the hotel programs as they are also listed under their loyalty program vs the hotel brand name
Last edited by goalie; Jun 27, 2013 at 9:11 am
Reason: added hotel reference