The BA Super Travellers
Oct 31, 2017, 9:25 am
#16
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: In the air
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Posts: 8,781
The world treats travel bloggers with far too much respect. Just like amateur models on Instagram hawking second rate fashion and weight loss tea, most modern travel bloggers don't actually properly experience where they visit and because they are receiving payment for advertising they aren't passing on their honest uninformed opinions in any case.
BA could really have done their customers a service by not giving these people another platform, as their success comes at the cost of actual real travel reviewers who seek to inform rather than to simply profiteer.
BA could really have done their customers a service by not giving these people another platform, as their success comes at the cost of actual real travel reviewers who seek to inform rather than to simply profiteer.
Oct 31, 2017, 12:18 pm
#17
Join Date: Apr 2016
Programs: BA Gold (GGL/CCR), HH Diamond
Posts: 37
I'd actually quite like to receive The Club. For some reason I get no marketing emails from BA at all. I once got fed up with the constant feedback emails after every flight - so I un-ticked all the marketing communications boxes. About a year ago I re-ticked them - because I felt I was probably missing out on offers - but I have not managed to get BA's attention again! Any ideas on how to do so?
Oct 31, 2017, 12:33 pm
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Argentina
Posts: 40,274
Oct 31, 2017, 12:41 pm
#19
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: New York
Programs: AA, CX, Hyatt, Marriott
Posts: 1,484
As an AA/CX person who has a BA account solely for the purpose of checking OW award availability, I just received this email/Club Magazine(??) as well. Opened it for the first time because I saw this post first...
Oct 31, 2017, 12:51 pm
#20
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Surrey, UK
Programs: BA Gold, *A Gold, IHG Platinum
Posts: 670
I am! I Make videos for YouTube, but I don't give an opinion at the end. I leave the viewers to form their own opinion based on what they've seen.
Although having said that, I don't get paid (other than YouTube monetisation) so maybe I'm not all that real. Instead, I have to rely on my day job to fund my trips.
Although having said that, I don't get paid (other than YouTube monetisation) so maybe I'm not all that real. Instead, I have to rely on my day job to fund my trips.
Oct 31, 2017, 1:10 pm
#21
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: In the air
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Bonvoy LT Plat, Hilton Gold, GHA Tit, BA Gold, Turkish Elite
Posts: 8,781
Oct 31, 2017, 2:04 pm
#23
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Helvetia
Programs: AS; BA Silver; UA; HH Gold; Sprngli Connaisseur
Posts: 2,934
I'd actually quite like to receive The Club. For some reason I get no marketing emails from BA at all. I once got fed up with the constant feedback emails after every flight - so I un-ticked all the marketing communications boxes. About a year ago I re-ticked them - because I felt I was probably missing out on offers - but I have not managed to get BA's attention again! Any ideas on how to do so?
Oct 31, 2017, 2:46 pm
#24
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2017
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 325
I also managed to 'miss out' and couldn't work out why - all my marketing preferences were set to Yes. Turned out my ISP had blocked them at source as spam and there was nothing BA could do! And after 12-18 months it unblocked itself again. Weird.
Oct 31, 2017, 4:50 pm
#25
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Oct 31, 2017, 5:36 pm
#27
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: New York
Programs: AA, CX, Hyatt, Marriott
Posts: 1,484
AAs is just meh. Last time on BA I was chatting with a banker so did not have time to read. Is it the same with this?
Oct 31, 2017, 7:51 pm
#29
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: YYC
Programs: BA bronze, Aeroplan peon
Posts: 4,756
Oct 31, 2017, 8:12 pm
#30
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: In the air
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Bonvoy LT Plat, Hilton Gold, GHA Tit, BA Gold, Turkish Elite
Posts: 8,781