View from the Wing [VFTW] discussions
Apr 26, 2016, 9:21 pm
#586
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Apr 27, 2016, 7:26 am
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Apr 27, 2016, 11:35 am
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Apr 27, 2016, 2:01 pm
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There's such as thing as eating your seed corn. VFTW has brand value, and he's diminishing that value foolishly IMHO. Better to forego revenue today and keep the quality up for the long run.
OTOH, I would have written exactly the same thing before all the credit card pimping began. So what do I know?
OTOH, I would have written exactly the same thing before all the credit card pimping began. So what do I know?
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?
Apr 27, 2016, 4:43 pm
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May 2, 2016, 3:57 pm
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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.
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.
May 2, 2016, 5:21 pm
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May 2, 2016, 5:44 pm
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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 $$ on the table.
Didn't he and Ben just get caught on margin calls with Alaska miles for their award booking clients when EK went tits up overnight?
I'd post the 'SHAME' gif but that's a foreign word when there is affiliate $$ on the table.
May 2, 2016, 7:24 pm
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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 $$ on the table.
Didn't he and Ben just get caught on margin calls with Alaska miles for their award booking clients when EK went tits up overnight?
I'd post the 'SHAME' gif but that's a foreign word when there is affiliate $$ on the table.
Apparently as good as my sources. . .
May 6, 2016, 8:56 pm
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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 $$ on the table.
Didn't he and Ben just get caught on margin calls with Alaska miles for their award booking clients when EK went tits up overnight?
I'd post the 'SHAME' gif but that's a foreign word when there is affiliate $$ on the table.
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.
May 6, 2016, 9:43 pm
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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.
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 value added by these two shrinks every day.
May 7, 2016, 8:54 am
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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!
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!
May 8, 2016, 10:37 am
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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.
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.
May 8, 2016, 2:49 pm
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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.
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.