Hi again folks

Thanks for the overwhelming response! Bloody fantastic. The next step is constructing the questionnaire. What I'd like to do is get one put on-line, which would make it easier for everyone. I guess what I would have to do is post the website to the forum.

A couple of people bring up some interesting issues above. The population, or universe, issue is one that kind of, but not overly, worries me. My population is really, as someone pointed out (forgot to quote, sorry), people who hang around flyertalk. I won't get a balanced perspective from, say AP Basic members. I'm half-thinking that this is fine. I could just as easily hire a mail panel company administer 20000 questionnaires around the US to a representative pop, but the incidence of capturing some, say, *AG, would be pretty low.

As for representative samples, that would be pretty much impossible from flyertalk.com. I don't know the demographic make-up of the population (those who visit flyertalk), so I wouldn't be able to weight my final sample to the demographics of the population. If anything, it would be a convience/snowball sample as applied to a quantitative study.

So, I'm in Perth for a week and will brainstorm about questions, layout, etc. I'd like to get all of this done by early Spring (northern hemisphere).

Thanks again, team!

Cheers

David