And with this post, http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea....ill-get-hosed/, the lights go out for me on VFTW. Not an award sale even applicable to Americans, which he doesn't note and even gives the impression is applicable to flights from anywhere but London, but an opportunity for ol' Gar to beat on one of his favorite whipping boys, BA.

RTFT&C, Gary.

I've gradually cut down going to his site...the shilling for AA and non-stop credit cards did it to me.

I'm slowly becoming a kokonutz airline agnostic.

Frugal Travel Guy posts today about 5 must-have card types for travel. Chase Sapphire Preferred and the Barclays Arrival Card get starred for being Chip & Pin; other lesser cards are noted for having Chip & Signature capability, which can often serve in a pinch.

Knowledgeable readers already know that the CSP card is, in fact, Chip & Signature, and that the Barclays Card is principally also Chip & Signature (with backup PIN capability).

Knowledgeable travelers, and even not-so-knowledgeable ones like me, know that this is not a trivial or minor issue. Is my card going to work in that train kiosk or am I going to have to brave that 45 minute line at the manned desk?

How can you run a travel blog and not know (or at least not care about) the basics?

The comments to the post, of course, picked up on all this instantly.

Who cares about stuff like this? What matters is conversions! :rolleyes:

And in that same paragraph she even notes that the Chase Hyatt card is Chip-and-Signature only, contrasting it to Sapphire Preferred.

The post was from 19 Nov and here, two days later and after comments calling out the errors, it remains uncorrected. It's even one of the rotating things on the FT home page. Amazing.

Disappointed that many times some bloggers just copy what other bloggers wrote without verifying them..

Can we include the bits of FT that present themselves in a blog-like way?

This appallingly lazy piece tells us that Lufthansa plans "global rollout" of their new Premium Economy to BLR-LHR and "every long-haul route in India".

+1 to both of these. To me this just shows how little travel these authors really do. There are a lot of hacks in the blog world that present themselves as knowledgable writers unfortunately.

I have been targeted three consecutive times spanning back to June, all my restaurant spend goes here. Screw First Friday :D

I went to AMS via HNL...but that was years ago when status mattered. Since 2012 I entered free agency and love WN for domestic trips on points! Now if I had a dollar for every time every blogger raved about the Southwest Companion Pass...easiest & most often used template ever!

I remember my first Ann Arbor DO in maybe 2007. I was LITERALLY the only guy there touting the WN Companion Pass, as maybe the best deal in all of FFland.

Everyone else told me I was completely insane. "WN sucks, no F, no meals, no reserved seats, no Europe, no Hawaii, ….."

I remember that!

I'd almost forgotten what it might be like if an adult posted about Delta's changes to SkyMiles: http://mjontravel.boardingarea.com/2...lines-reviews/. No moral outrage here; just simply a cost/benefit analysis that takes into consideration that a business has a right to make decisions as best they can in order to make profits. And that a customer has a right to dump a program that no longer serves him well.

Night and Day compared to the mess of 'content' on the DeltaPoints blog.

I generally agree with what MJ said there.

MJ on Travel is actually one of my favorite blogs, and frequently has truly excellent insight into what's going on in AA-land, which is great for a hub captive like me. I just skip the cruise stuff.

As for the other blog mentioned above, you know it provides some of us with practically endless entertainment, right?

I really like it when Gary tells airport authorities, hotels, and airlines how to run their businesses. It's sort of like a person who eats telling Thomas Keller how to run Per Se.

No pingbacks here because it's now something he does every day or so. And amazingly, no one in a position of authority seems to be listening to him. Shocked, I am, shocked!