Hi Raffles, thanks for picking up on my post. I certainly take your thoughts on board.

However, where I’m perhaps not totally convinced is your angle that those readers who are “able to spend their day commenting on HFP may not be doing the sort of jobs which require weekly or bi-weekly long-haul travel.”

On the one hand, I understand the logic of your reasoning ; but equally, we know that some FT members who appear to fly the most manage (somehow) to find the time to generate some of the highest post counts