There are more and more hotel/airlines employees on these boards. Some are helpful and welcome like Adam Burke & Co (Hilton), and the Starwood Lurkers, who both post in company time, and the various FA's who do it in their own time such as Bear96 and Basenji etc on the UA forum. And I hear anecdotally the revenue protection people from Delta have (sadly) been detected acting on board posts.

There was a 'USA Today' reporter called "Scribe" popped up asking questions last week or so, and an alleged N.Y.Times reporter on the "Paris for $27" thread, who it seems may (?) have been bogus.

It is when sneaky PR companies like ths one from Priceline.com come onto boards with company SPAM that the corporate line is being crossed IMHO:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/004086.html

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~ Glen ~

[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 02-12-2001).]