Originally Posted by
Raffles
Wonder what the business model is now for airline focused sites? From what I can see, the credit card companies have pulled up the drawbridge on giving new sites links and keep culling the existing ones. You need 1m page views a month before your ad revenue hits $5k per month, and BA will want their 50% cut of that. I struggle to see what he is aiming for, unless it is a Ben-style profile or a sale to Bankrate.
Raffles I think you nailed it. He's going for page views with disgusting tales of entitlement. He really comes off as a bully. I feel really bad for the station manager. He's trying to help and even gives him a free room (which he didn't deserve) and what does he get for his kindness? An unflattering picture of the poor guy posted on the site.
Yeah, he's spending more currency (whether cash or rewards) to get back and it's totally unnecessary since he could have flown back in economy. I didn't realize that Ethiopian had offered that.