Right. You won't believe what happens next! :D

Of course. But people here aren't concerned with page views and revenue generation. Or staying atop the BA home page.

Too much barbecue here probably :D.

Maybe he doesn't believe that investing his time in VFTW is worth what it used to be? Or maybe there just isn't so much game left in the game that it's worth the time as much as the alternatives?

Unless in the game for "fame", isn't it about being in the game to grow a little fortune or at least not squander it away?

I enjoyed his barbecue reviews. We now have a new Texas Hill Country-style barbecue place in Arlington (VA)-Texas Jack's. Hope he gets back and has a chance to review it sometime.

I'm surprised no one took exception to his password advice.

I sure do.

If you have a password manager, you don't do that nonsense with 'spg' at the end of the password. You make a strong, random password via your manager that has nothing in common with any other password.

If you're getting your password advice from the Thought Leader in Travel, you've got bigger issues.

Huh. Now Gary's back to pimping Alaska miles too.

Didn't he and Ben just get caught on margin calls with Alaska miles for their award booking clients when EK went tits up overnight?

I'd post the 'SHAME' gif but that's a foreign word when there is affiliate $$ on the table.

Not only that, but both he and Ben got caught posting incorrect information regarding the end of phone booking fees at American. I thought these guys had sources!

Apparently as good as my sources. . .

Then yesterday/today he and Ben basically both tried to browbeat AS down over what was honestly a clear error on the CX intra-Asia chart.

And when in the history of this forum, or "the hobby" has anyone here EVER taken one airline employee at their word on anything? Front line employees are notorious purveyors of wrong information, that's why this forum exists! Yet everyone, particularly Gary, runs with it as though the world was ending.

The rhetoric from both of them on Twitter to AS is so dripping with self-importance that you could probably stock the newly flowing Self-Importance River with bass and fish in it.

The key for me with both of them on this subject: their vaunted sources and connections were front-line employees and the AS Twitter account. In other words, the same kind of sources that anybody, including tons of folks who aren't frequent flyers, could have used.

The value added by these two shrinks every day.

You guys are missing the point.

There was published information.

That allowed for a post.

Then it was contradicted.

That allowed for another post.

There may be more.

Anything for a post, no matter how insignificant. This is Gary we're talking about.

Post post post!

Post hic, post haec, post hoc.

Often Flyer Talk comments are less sophisticated than the blog that's being commented on. That's irony for you, I guess, especially since many of the commenters themselves don't even realize their own limitations. Sometimes I just have to laugh.

But here it's different. A lot different. You commenters are way more sophisticated than the blog. A nice metaphor that works (the bass fishing line); actual Latin declention (nominative, three genders). I'm impressed!

I still follow the blog for its AA coverage, which is still good. The rest? I'm gradually just tuning out. Too much static.

By sadly, there are always new people learning about what was once the miles and points game and is now just a shadow of its former self, but to them it's new horizons