<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Plato90s:
80% of revenue is provided by 20% of fliers. The "silent majority" is not nearly as important as that 20% segment.
The people on FlyerTalk are in that 20%.</font>
Some are, but FT is also the place of mileage runs, pricing errors distribution, and full milking of the elite system. There are plenty of elites here who are at best break even customers for the airlines (I'll put myself in that group, fwiw.)