Originally Posted by greywolf
IWhile I have never flown WestJet and haven't really ever had a reason to (since I mostly fly internationally), I think it is great that another Canadian carrier has matured enough to warrant their own discussion forum on FT! To be honest, I'd rather see threads in the AE forum on various WestJet nuggets than "I'm on ACXXXX in lounge YYYY can you upgrade me?" I'm confident that we'll still see relevant WestJet threads in the AE forum.
As an "apologist" but also a PE (at least on UA, never in real life
), I fully support Randy's decision, and would point out the following:
Much like members of all the other airline/FFP forums on FT, if you want WS threads (or DL threads, or CO threads, or US threads), you can now go to the WS (or DL or CO or US) forum. People who are interested in this can find them easily, people who are not can avoid them easily, and they are hopefully less likely to pop up in the midst of unrelated threads like the launch of YUL-DEN or new pass products.
The whole issue here has been that there is a big difference between the likes of PE (who is mad at AC for reasons we all should know by now
), but who posts on a variety of issues (including the travesty that is the YYZ airport) and WS founders / employees whose vast majority of postings have to do with WS, and how wonderful it is.
Regarding UA: Keep the threads going. I truly believe they are relevant, and my feelings aren't hurt if UA happens to be stronger in some areas and AC in others.
Here again -- big difference between someone posting about deals on UA that we as AE members can take advantage of, vs. over a protracted period of months, stuff like "let me be the first to welcome you to the friendly skies" and "here are all the reasons that UA is great for upgrades and AC sucks".
This may be the Air Canada Aeroplan forum. However, I don't think (and Randy, please correct me if I'm wrong) that this implies a "pro-AE" agenda". I think any good discussion or debate requires positives and negatives.
I don't think anyone has any disagreement here (at least, anyone who is currently posting on FT
), otherwise in this past week, we'd have been limited to about 2 posts given what the 2006 program has revealed for Es. But at least this keeps things more
about AC/AE, whether positive or negative.
This just makes things more consistent with the rest of FT.
Simon