I highly doubt Gary needs that salary.

Money is money, whether it’s really “needed” or not. And money, much like company, influences the public posture of even people who are financially unencumbered billionaires. And VFTW’s owner is far from being in that league.

It would require a suspension of disbelief to think that money and association has zero influence on the blog. Some things even disappeared from VFTW because of association.

VFTW seems to remain in a narrow opinion corridor that won’t rock the Party Line boat too much. Which is sort of amusing in its own right, as the blog has had its very tabloidesque and Crossfire-on-steroids moments that ran up audience numbers.

After Delta completely nukes the benefits of their AmEx cards yesterday, this pitiful tout is hawking the cards on a front page BA post this morning.

Put another way:

Here's the real fraud. After years of railing against Delta (he'll remind you who invented the term "SkyPesos") and predicting doom for Delta (remember when the conversion to a revenue-based program would cost them customers "at the margin," a concept he uses but doesn't seem to understand), a fact that he had to acknowledge in his posts this past week demonstrates how little Delta has needed to listen to him: 1% of the US GDP is charged on Amex Delta cards.

A fact that both demonstrates his lack of influence on Delta and his inability to make accurate predictions about the impact on moves within loyalty programs on the airline industry as a whole.

Isn't he the guy who thinks that paid business class customers should be downgraded before elite upgraders when there's a change of aircraft?

If so, anyone running an airline to make money would be well-advised to ignore such advice.

Royalty, the pope and presidents....have him on speed dial

Thoughtleader, no explainations needed,
Wonder if the title is hereditary.....

The recent disgust about the 8$ water & 16$ M&M at NYC airports was strange... one would think that this is a libertarians wet dream?

He is amazingly terrible at being a libertarian. There was also a recent post he made where he celebrated the government harassing someone because they made a pro-Palestine statement.

Fixed that for you. Him and that imbecile junior clone of his who Ctrl-Vs the VFTW blog...Live and Lets Fly. BA is like a giant toilet bowl where you are trying to fish out your one or two diamond earrings that you dropped in there. They're in there somewhere, but you have to really fish around a ton of unpleasantness.

Cornering the morons market who click on this crap, wow.

"United Airlines Business Class Passenger Drinks Too Much, Throws Up, And Eats It"

I have no doubt Live and Lets Fly will copy that too smh.

I am inclined to assume that they know their numbers and find such copy to be working for their business purposes. It’s not like tabloids have had no market.

Also explains the weekly salacious post about some Instagram influencer or model on an airplane wearing revealing clothing. Gets clicks.

VFTW vs OMAAT blog 'fight' over AR

https://viewfromthewing.com/argentin...as-argentinas/

tl;dr:

Ben: Hobby > Politics
Gary: Politics > Hobby