View from the Wing [VFTW] discussions
Mar 17, 2015, 12:46 pm
#286
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Hey, I sit in an elite seat on a plane, so my libertarian ideas will work for air traffic control, right?
Honest to goodness, does he even have any concept of the complexity? Or that it used to be more common for airplanes to crash into each other despite the fact that there were fewer planes in the sky then that traveled at a lot lower speed?
Click bait and pimp credit cards all you want, my man, because I really don't want you to have the slightest bit of influence on the safety of the skies. . .
Honest to goodness, does he even have any concept of the complexity? Or that it used to be more common for airplanes to crash into each other despite the fact that there were fewer planes in the sky then that traveled at a lot lower speed?
Click bait and pimp credit cards all you want, my man, because I really don't want you to have the slightest bit of influence on the safety of the skies. . .
Mar 19, 2015, 12:21 pm
#288
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VFTW is doing another Park Hyatt Maldives trip report, and previewed some upcoming excitement:
Can we expect shower selfies...?
And while you can find reports online of Emirates first class, I hadn’t ever done it onboard the A380 so my take may be a little bit different. Plus there’s no way I was going to fly that bird and not report on showering in the air.
Mar 19, 2015, 7:40 pm
#289
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I hope no shower selfies, though!
btw I glanced at your post too quickly at first and though your first sentence ended with "...previewed some upcoming excrement:"
Mar 21, 2015, 2:54 pm
#290
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Apr 9, 2015, 5:02 pm
#291
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http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea....ess-than-1200/
Incidentally, the same fare was posted on FT 45 minutes before Gary's post.
Apparently the fare has been around since Feb 3rd.
I was searching one-way fares from Dubai to Austin as part of playing around with a trip I’m considering and deciding also whether or not to burn Alaska Airlines miles now that you can use Alaska miles again for Emirates first class.
And I came across something interesting. One way, Dubai – Austin, brings up some pretty cheap first class (note: this is a search for first and not business class) fares.
And I came across something interesting. One way, Dubai – Austin, brings up some pretty cheap first class (note: this is a search for first and not business class) fares.
Apparently the fare has been around since Feb 3rd.
Apr 9, 2015, 7:29 pm
#292
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http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea....ess-than-1200/
Incidentally, the same fare was posted on FT 45 minutes before Gary's post.
Apparently the fare has been around since Feb 3rd.
Incidentally, the same fare was posted on FT 45 minutes before Gary's post.
Apparently the fare has been around since Feb 3rd.
It was on the private listservs a couple hours before it was on FT.
And yes, Gary is on those.
He is usually pretty good at HTs. Assuming there is none there, maybe it's because he saw it on the listserv before he saw it on FT.
Edited To Add, it's not clear that it was on the private listservs before it was on FT...might be a time zone thing...
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Apr 9, 2015, 7:30 pm
#293
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http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea....ess-than-1200/
Incidentally, the same fare was posted on FT 45 minutes before Gary's post.
Apparently the fare has been around since Feb 3rd.
Incidentally, the same fare was posted on FT 45 minutes before Gary's post.
Apparently the fare has been around since Feb 3rd.
Apr 10, 2015, 1:44 pm
#296
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IMHO, it is completely plausible that the VFTW blogger, who lives in Austin, was searching for F fares DXB-AUS due to travel needs.
IMHO, it would be utterly insane if said blogger did not purchase the ridiculously low fully refundable and flexible F fare encountered before blogging about it, if he was truly searching that market due to travel needs.
Therefore, if the VFTW blogger truly found this fare before the FT poster, we would expect the VFTW blogger to have multiple tickets issued. Right? It was F on some decent airlines, ridiculously cheap and fully refundable. Buy it up and use it if you need to. The VFTW blogger is not randomly searching the internet for whichever city pairs he feels like looking for mistake fares. That's a waste of the VFTW blogger's time. Credit cards don't pimp themselves ya know!
So, I have yet to see a post or comment from the VFTW blogger indicating whether any tickets were purchased or what itinerary he is flying or which website he used to price it out (ITA screenshots were in the original post but of course can't purchase there!).
Maybe I missed them and can be pointed in the right direction.
Or maybe I can find some other evidence of tickets being issued. Or not.
IMHO, it would be utterly insane if said blogger did not purchase the ridiculously low fully refundable and flexible F fare encountered before blogging about it, if he was truly searching that market due to travel needs.
Therefore, if the VFTW blogger truly found this fare before the FT poster, we would expect the VFTW blogger to have multiple tickets issued. Right? It was F on some decent airlines, ridiculously cheap and fully refundable. Buy it up and use it if you need to. The VFTW blogger is not randomly searching the internet for whichever city pairs he feels like looking for mistake fares. That's a waste of the VFTW blogger's time. Credit cards don't pimp themselves ya know!
So, I have yet to see a post or comment from the VFTW blogger indicating whether any tickets were purchased or what itinerary he is flying or which website he used to price it out (ITA screenshots were in the original post but of course can't purchase there!).
Maybe I missed them and can be pointed in the right direction.
Or maybe I can find some other evidence of tickets being issued. Or not.
Apr 21, 2015, 9:37 am
#297
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The Real Reason Bloggers use Click-Bait Titles: It's Not What You Think
...except that it's exactly what you think.
...except that it's exactly what you think.
Apr 22, 2015, 9:33 am
#298
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Apr 23, 2015, 8:44 am
#300
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The combination of non-informative/clickbait post titles and truncated RSS/email text is alienating loyal readers much more than either factor could alone.
I always thought that blogs would overtake discussion forums like FT, but practices like this create quite an opportunity to capture or recapture readership.
The one useful aspect of the new BoardingArea layout is the list of recent comments. I go straight to that and ignore everything else. That makes the site work almost like a forum on FT.
