Originally Posted by
BlondeBomber
Now the infamous bad boys arrive . . . .
we still need to figure out that errorplan stuff . . .
where's Ken HAAmer hanging out?
Top floor, corner office, and my own reserved parking spot right at the door.
Originally Posted by
hjohnson
Glad to have you back.
Took almost a 10 year break myself after getting laid off from previous roadwarrior job and losing my status, but now have it back, and am back here.
I think the staying power is that this place has managed to maintain the more expert level folks, and is a little less obvious to the FOTSG folks, compared to the various relevant subreddits.
WAIT!!!! I KNOW YOU!!!!
But I still don't understand your virtual machine concept for the new lab.
Originally Posted by
Stranger
Who? :-)
You may be surprised to find that we follow each other on Twitter, and have virtually identical views on politics.
Originally Posted by
hjohnson
He’s doing good. I actually work for the same company as him, and am one of the people filling the role that he used to hold. We were actually chatting about FT a few days ago, and he only checks in occasionally, and isn’t flying much at all any longer.
Well at least one of us works.
Originally Posted by
canadiancow
The issue is "frequent flyers" and "FlyerTalkers" are two very different (but somewhat overlapping) sets of people.
And while I don't want to call anyone "dumb", there are a lot of people in both sets who truly don't understand why allowing you to earn SE for $3k and upgrade every $400 YYZ-TYO-YYZ fare to J that they buy (in sufficient quantity to requalify) is bad for business, and why "bad for business" is not viable for a frequent flyer program.
It's relatively easy to have a discussion with someone senior at AC if you are a "business-smart" frequent flyer.
But the type of person who will show up to a livery event is almost guaranteed to be much closer to the "$3000 SE FTer" than anyone they'd actually care to hear from. And I say that as someone who spent less than 24h in YYZ on a SFO-YYZ-SFO turn to attend one of those.
The last conversation I had with an AC exec started along the lines of "90% of the tickets I buy are paid J, and I just don't feel like I get anything out of my status". That gets their attention much more than "30 years ago, I could book a RTW in F for 100k Aeroplan points".
I'm still not convinced that AC execs are any "business-smarter" than your average frequent flyer. For years they motivated me to instead spend $1000-$1600 on YVR-SYD-YVR, when I was fully prepared to pay $4000-$5000.