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Old Aug 25, 2014, 5:33 pm
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Originally Posted by lwildernorva
But hey, he gets quoted on CBS and other MSM so he must be an expert, right?
No, he's an expert because of his come hither eyes:



I don't think we get to call his musings on Avios misleading. He was very upfront that he had no idea what he was talking about and that he was engaging in pure speculation. Perhaps, like when he 'still trusted' AA he was trying to goad them into not changing anything using reverse-psychology or something.

As one commenter succinctly put it:

"voice of reason said,

So one long flowery post to just say you have no clue?"

With all of those warnings that he was merely speculating and that he had no real information to base his speculation on, it's tough to say he was being misleading.

And it's hard to be surprised that his speculation was dead wrong...especially when BA tweeted that they are not devaluing (although VFTW termed that Tweet 'a non-denial denial.')

So wrong, yes. Misleading, no.

Sometimes even come hither bloggers get it wrong. And when they do, thank goodness FlyerTalk is here to correct them: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/23422126-post117.html

^

And, at the end of the day VFTW likely got a surge in clicks just in time for the end of the month. And that's what REALLY matters, innit?

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