View from the Wing [VFTW] discussions
Jul 16, 2023 | 4:57 am
#1216
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Jul 16, 2023 | 5:07 am
#1217
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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.
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.
Last edited by GUWonder; Jul 16, 2023 at 5:23 am
Sep 15, 2023 | 6:44 pm
#1220
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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.
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.
Sep 16, 2023 | 9:13 am
#1221
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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.
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.
If so, anyone running an airline to make money would be well-advised to ignore such advice.
Sep 18, 2023 | 1:31 am
#1223
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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?
Sep 18, 2023 | 9:00 pm
#1224
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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.
Sep 25, 2023 | 8:15 am
#1225
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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.
Sep 26, 2023 | 8:56 am
#1226
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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.
"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.
Sep 27, 2023 | 12:13 pm
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I am inclined to assume that they know their numbers and find such copy to be working for their business purposes. Its not like tabloids have had no market.
Oct 1, 2023 | 6:04 pm
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Also explains the weekly salacious post about some Instagram influencer or model on an airplane wearing revealing clothing. Gets clicks.
Nov 23, 2023 | 2:09 am
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Nov 23, 2023 | 9:56 am
#1230
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Ben: Hobby > Politics
Gary: Politics > Hobby