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Oct 23, 2006 | 4:48 pm

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Originally Posted by BenjaminNYC

Well, FT has certainly changed, but I think it's improving dramatically:

* More real business travellers who give excellent travel information

Actually we had a MUCH higher percentage of business travelers back in the day. At the early DO's (before we called them DO's), it was about 1 in 10 who traveled for fun. The rest of us were pure business travelers. I recall meeting someone (was it Horizons?) who only flew for pleasure, yet he was a 1K and elite on some other airline too. AND he had a day job. That was impressive, but rare back then on Flyertalk.

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