View from the Wing [VFTW] discussions
#856
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You know it is some place for FAs to be when TSA appears to be comparatively more compassionate towards the general public!
Anyway, I never thought that Labor Day or Any Day should be an occasion to defend or even tolerate idiocy.
#857
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#858
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Well, the FAs union has come out against letting a passenger's family into the airport's food court or shopping area. Apparent logic: this might interfere with an FA's job of thwarting terrorists in the terminal building.
You know it is some place for FAs to be when TSA appears to be comparatively more compassionate towards the general public!
Anyway, I never thought that Labor Day or Any Day should be an occasion to defend or even tolerate idiocy.
You know it is some place for FAs to be when TSA appears to be comparatively more compassionate towards the general public!
Anyway, I never thought that Labor Day or Any Day should be an occasion to defend or even tolerate idiocy.
As for defending or tolerating idiocy, if you read Gary's blog, you should see that every day.
#859
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#861
Can't deny Gary's a hardworking individual, but with more of his focus going on his "real job" the blog has really fallen of a cliff quality wise. No real analysis of anything, no detailed trip reports just a steady stream of credit card shilling, click bait and general s**tposting.
#862
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Can't deny Gary's a hardworking individual, but with more of his focus going on his "real job" the blog has really fallen of a cliff quality wise. No real analysis of anything, no detailed trip reports just a steady stream of credit card shilling, click bait and general s**tposting.
#863
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Things got pretty spicy in the comments over here:
https://blog.wandr.me/2017/09/airlin...ve-profitable/
https://blog.wandr.me/2017/09/airlin...ve-profitable/
#864
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Seems like the VFTW author's words there are what can be expected of an industry apologist opposed to consumer-friendly-regulation.
#866
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Yesterday was comment/twitterfight day:
https://twitter.com/garyleff/status/912663307378667520
https://twitter.com/garyleff/status/912650932365725697
https://twitter.com/garyleff/status/912663307378667520
https://twitter.com/garyleff/status/912650932365725697
There's something ironic in Gary referring to it as "the hobby" and making it better, given Gary's role in making it (1) not a hobby but a business, and (2) worse.
#867
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So I have a few tiers of folders in my Feedly for blogs that I follow. The top one a read a few times a day. The lowest I hit maybe twice a week.
VFTW has been steadily working its way down the ranks until I fully dumped it this weekend. It joins TPG, MMS, FTG, etc. as blogs that just have no value to me - complete wastes of time.
Too many slap-dash posts with clickbait titles.
I'm sure I'm not Gary's target reader here, so he won't miss me.
I think it's ironic that I still keep the pathetic Rene's Points in my lowest-rung folder. That guy actually has marginally more valuable info than Gary.
VFTW has been steadily working its way down the ranks until I fully dumped it this weekend. It joins TPG, MMS, FTG, etc. as blogs that just have no value to me - complete wastes of time.
Too many slap-dash posts with clickbait titles.
I'm sure I'm not Gary's target reader here, so he won't miss me.
I think it's ironic that I still keep the pathetic Rene's Points in my lowest-rung folder. That guy actually has marginally more valuable info than Gary.
#870