View from the Wing [VFTW] discussions
Aug 6, 2016, 12:35 am
#692
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Another observation:
Brett Snyder/Cranky is increasingly calling out these BoardingArea posters misinformation about operational/strategic/etc facets of the industry. Cranky posts at 3:45am PDT and right on cue, Gary shows up moments later to defend his blog and offer some silly explanation.
Brett Snyder/Cranky is increasingly calling out these BoardingArea posters misinformation about operational/strategic/etc facets of the industry. Cranky posts at 3:45am PDT and right on cue, Gary shows up moments later to defend his blog and offer some silly explanation.
Aug 8, 2016, 9:26 pm
#693
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Gary (who I like) posted commentary on an article about a Chinese man who tried to take a turtle through security and pretended it was a KFC sandwich today. In his MORE FROM VIEW FROM THE WING section at the bottom of the page, a related link brought up ... the same story, which he had written about as a separate post three years prior.
Aug 8, 2016, 10:44 pm
#694
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Gary (who I like) posted commentary on an article about a Chinese man who tried to take a turtle through security and pretended it was a KFC sandwich today. In his MORE FROM VIEW FROM THE WING section at the bottom of the page, a related link brought up ... the same story, which he had written about as a separate post three years prior.
I've done the same thing before, obviously not ideal but also not the end of the world I wouldn't have thought.
Aug 8, 2016, 11:16 pm
#695
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I suspect that's exactly what happened. He mistook an article and believed the story was from July 29, 2016 when it was actually from July 29, 2013.
Aug 9, 2016, 5:11 am
#696
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It's always good to pepper in some posts about ridiculous incidents involving travel, anti TSA rants, food type reviews of places nobody cares about, another trip review on F of the same places he traveled before, a breaking deal he found somewhere else and HTs either to Alan H. or at the bottom of the post nobody gets to...until yet another credit card that you must get...the last one he sold BLOWS him away...or something like that #sameold
Aug 9, 2016, 7:18 am
#697
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I find his constant patting on the back to be obnoxious. Latest example this morning:
In line with calling himself a thought-leader it's rather obnoxious how often he finds a way to pat himself on the back within a given post / topic. We get it - you have similar ideas to others, you don't have to beat your chest about it and reference your own articles about it (which he does in the OP with a hyperlink as opposed to just the bolding that I've done).
The way to think about it is the 10th first class seat, most likely to go unoccupied (that you can occasionally sell at a premium) but where they find that “[t]he halo effect is considerable” — exactly the language I’ve been using to describe the top-end premium cabin offerings from the Gulf carriers.
Aug 9, 2016, 8:00 am
#698
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I find his constant patting on the back to be obnoxious. Latest example this morning:
In line with calling himself a thought-leader it's rather obnoxious how often he finds a way to pat himself on the back within a given post / topic. We get it - you have similar ideas to others, you don't have to beat your chest about it and reference your own articles about it (which he does in the OP with a hyperlink as opposed to just the bolding that I've done).
In line with calling himself a thought-leader it's rather obnoxious how often he finds a way to pat himself on the back within a given post / topic. We get it - you have similar ideas to others, you don't have to beat your chest about it and reference your own articles about it (which he does in the OP with a hyperlink as opposed to just the bolding that I've done).
Aug 9, 2016, 8:02 am
#699
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Aug 9, 2016, 5:55 pm
#701
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On the Hyatt trick he pumped the crap out of the Chase cards EXCEPT the Hyatt card and he said something "I do not have the affiliate link for it" and something about the banks not reviewing his post or something. Did not have the decency to have the non affiliate link to the Hyatt card to get his readers 2 free nights at the Hyatt, the subject of the freaking post. Only the cards that pay him. And THIS is the reason why this blog is in the Ignore list in my blog review lists. I only do not ignore it for research purposes to protect the newbies. THIS is exactly the type of incident that shows how deep in the dirt this business has fallen. And then when you bring up this stuff and somebody loses a fuse (how not to!!) they call you "one of the angrys"...
Bunch of Chase affiliate links and no Hyatt credit card link. Pump leader.
Pump this!
Bunch of Chase affiliate links and no Hyatt credit card link. Pump leader.
Pump this!
Aug 9, 2016, 10:29 pm
#702
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On the Hyatt trick he pumped the crap out of the Chase cards EXCEPT the Hyatt card and he said something "I do not have the affiliate link for it" and something about the banks not reviewing his post or something. Did not have the decency to have the non affiliate link to the Hyatt card to get his readers 2 free nights at the Hyatt, the subject of the freaking post. Only the cards that pay him. And THIS is the reason why this blog is in the Ignore list in my blog review lists. I only do not ignore it for research purposes to protect the newbies. THIS is exactly the type of incident that shows how deep in the dirt this business has fallen. And then when you bring up this stuff and somebody loses a fuse (how not to!!) they call you "one of the angrys"...
Bunch of Chase affiliate links and no Hyatt credit card link. Pump leader.
Pump this!
Bunch of Chase affiliate links and no Hyatt credit card link. Pump leader.
Pump this!
Aug 21, 2016, 8:18 am
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click bait
Saw Garys tweet this morning "Marriott hoping to back out of the Starwood Merger" then he does on to say at the end of the article "Theres little to suggest a similar fate for Marriott-SPG" in reference to United/US Airways merger not happening.
I thought that was some serious click bait. Am I wrong here? Feel like the headline is way over exaggerated. Or maybe Im just hangover and should have read the article again.
I thought that was some serious click bait. Am I wrong here? Feel like the headline is way over exaggerated. Or maybe Im just hangover and should have read the article again.