SAS is claiming victory for Europe/Africa!

http://www.flysas.com/en/EuroBonus/o...ards/?vst=true

The Flyertalk Awards are in form of a trophy, not as phallic though, more like a BP or luggage tag ;)
http://www.flyertalk.com/awards/2013/ftaaward.jpg

The freddies have 25 years under the belt, and the loyalty programs have a love/hate relationship for them. Blatant 'vote for me' spam does the trick, unlike Skytrax...

The "vote for me" campaign didn't work well for UA.--- not a single award.

After what Smisek has pulled over the past couple years if united even sniffed a trophy there would have been cries of foul play. Justifiably!

Freddie Awards 2014
 

Does anyone have any attendance information for the 2014 Freddie Awards in Seattle, or any associated events that week there?

Specifically, I'm looking to attend the event, but here it is "invitation only." Looking to see whether anyone is able to extend an invitation, or if there's any option to purchase a ticket/seat.

Email me at [email removed by moderator--please use this link or PM system instead] if you have details!

Thanks!

Since events are the purview of the CommunityBuzz forum, I'll move your post there.

I've also removed your email address from public view, since it's not a good idea to post email addresses on public forums--FlyerTalk is a popular website, and spam crawlers spider our website continually to harvest useful information. Posting your email publicly will almost guarantee your inbox will get flooded with spam. FlyerTalk has a Private Message system that you can use (although I think new members might not be able to send messages, only receive them), and there is also an "email user" link that sends an email to you through the FlyerTalk system so as to protect your anonymity.

Hope this helps!
jackal
Moderator, Information Desk

This thread is probably a good place to start:
Win a free ticket to the April 25-27 2014 FTU in Seattle and a VIP invitation to the Freddies!

Thanks, tom911, for the link. Since Freddie Awards are now associated with MilePoint I will move the thread to the External Miles and Points Resources forum.

NewbieRunner
Co-Moderator, CommunityBuzz

The Freddies used to be open to FlyerTalkers to attend on Randy's dime, then for a while anyone could attend for a fee.

That's no longer the case.

The New Freddies require an invitation from Randy or someone else at MilePoint/Freddie Awards, LLC/FTEF corp.

More info (like who to suck up to to get a ticket): http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/18447363-post26.html

To be fair, the Freddies for the last few years before they switched to the FTAwards and now back to the Freddies DID require an invitation. That invitation was sent out relatively last-minute and was generally open to all but it wasn't like they expected that random people would just show up at the ballroom and get in. Similarly, when it was run as the FTAwards it was relatively open invite but you were expected to be invited.

Not really. :rolleyes:

Different corporate shell, same principals. So easy to make that mistake (as I have myself). @:-):)


The bottom line is that Randy used to be incredibly generous to this community around the Freddies. Ridiculously so, imho. :) Now it's run more like a business.

It always was.

To be fair, the Freddies notice/invite used to come out in Feb for FTers to sign-up & there were quite a few that attended each year. In the last few years the 'invite' on FT is posted by Randy a couple of weeks before the event & is very limited in terms of size. Do agree with you that the entire time, whether Freddies or FTAwards, it was an invite-only event, not just show up.

Cheers.

There is an interesting discussion going on about such kind of industry awards in Germany: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business...,3208972.story

Looks like things were A LOT worse than initially reported. http://www.thelocal.de/20140120/adac...ar-award-votes

Lol, they were just making things up!

That would NEVER happen with FFP awards....

Would it?