Originally Posted by
CKDGM
Yup. Looks like it's checking the referrer and blocking direct links from either this thread or all of FlyerTalk. Maybe someone should write to Chris Elliott complaining about travel bloggers who put easily-circumvented "access control" methods on their websites? That's probably the airlines' fault too.
But according to Elliott's philosophy, we should all be equal and there should never be status differences in the travel industry. So doesn't that imply that people coming to his website via a link on FT should be treated exactly the same as anyone else? We shouldn't be treated like kettles or "nobodies" to elliott.org.