Raffles

To quote:

"Not surprisingly, TPG deleted a lot of original reporting that was negative for airlines. Remember when a United flight attendant put a dog in the overhead bin and it died? I was the first to report that story, and it went viral. That post is now deleted. Another one of these is when American Airlines flight attendants came out publicly against AA's new 24-inch wide bathrooms on its 737 MAX aircraft. Not surprisingly, that's one of many negative AA posts that were deleted."

onetouchpass

There certainly seems to be incentive for them to do that, given how much they've...commercialized since they started.

But is correlation = causation here? Seems a lot of articles have been deleted/modded, and in correlation, some of those involve some critique of airlines.

Believe me, I'm no defender of TPG. I'm just wondering how much of this is some procedural thing with his departure, or there's some nefarious erasure going on. No dog in this fight, I don't care, but I'm just curious!

oliver2002

MMS was equally scrubbed a few years after TPG bought it. They own what the writers created, so they can do whatever they want with it...?

Adam1222

I think there is little doubt that they *can* do that, but it is further proof that they are in no way a journalistic outlet and that staff like Benet Wilson, who claim to be journalists doing journalism, are either fooling themselves or others.

ctownflyer

MMS also reauthored posts. Though they were doing that even before they sold out.

nancypants

I mean 27 is nearer to 50 than to zero?

dingo

Here https://thepointsguy.com/news/things...ed-trip-paris/ the “author” says:
“I admit it was a bit disconcerting to see so many people smoking in restaurants, stores and on the street. And don’t bother asking for a no-smoking section, since there aren’t any available.”

I have been to Paris numerous times since they changed the smoking law and the above is not only counter to my experience it is not true at all. It is a lie. And funny that a cig is a trigger event.

jspira

“The croissants were delicious”. Well some even most are but some aren’t that good. ... does this mean ?

”When I arrived on July 16, I was hungry but didn’t feel like going to a restaurant.”. Most people writing about Paris go to Paris and skip the restaurants.

One of my colleagues is on temporary assignment as the magazine’s European editor and moved to Paris right before Covid. The heart of the City is its restaurants and cafes.

Sure, skip the restaurants and have a baguette.

Adam1222

This looks like a super lazy post thrown together so she could consider the trip a business expense. Things she learned include "The weather was great?"

Theflyerin

TPG own the content. They purchased it when they comissioned the writer to write it for them, and paid them for it.

They can do whatever they want with it.

ISTFlyer

I'm currently in Paris and yes, it was always like it is, smoking permitted outside not permitted inside.
Since today, I haven't seen any restaurant in Europe that have limited outdoor space having a no-smoking section outdoor.

I wish she could have shared a photo of someone smoking inside inside a store ( even censured ). It's a total lie.
I don't want to go OMNI but I could write 1000+ words regarding the honor system in the US and people smoking w*** in parks in major cities in touristic areas and nothing happens.

Also to be honest, touristic spots are not sold out in advance and yesterday, I was able to purchase a walk-in ticket at Musée d'Orsay with no wait, and there are available tickets for the Eiffel Tower even for tomorrow. Those who have been to Paris pre-COVID would know that the lines were much worse then and the hotels were much expensive at that point where the wait time for the Eiffel Tower was 1-2 months during the summer with no walk in tickets available through the ticketing booth.

However, I'll agree with the author that most of the tourists are local tourists from the EU ( with most of them coming from inside France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium ). There are also a decent number of US tourists ( although much less than pre-pandemic levels ), and people from the Middle East ( the population who likes shopping at luxury Champs-Elysées stores ).

Edit: Grammar

tom911

Today I learned that there are no public transportation options at LGA. Guess I really haven't take the bus to the subway or all the way into Manhattan on past flights there (or that the author has never flown into LGA and taken advantage of those options).

https://thepointsguy.com/news/laguar...-faa-approval/

The airport might disagree, too, as they have an entire page devoted to transportation options including three bus routes. Just one sentence from it:

https://www.laguardiaairport.com/to-...transportation

jspira

Not only that but in a few years and just announced yesterday (in terms of final green light/approval), there will be an efficient AirTrain to the airport that links with the LIRR and the subway.

AirTrain to LaGuardia Airport Gets Green Light

"The $2.1 billion AirTrain to New York’s LaGuardia Airport cleared its final hurdle Tuesday as the Federal Aviation Administration gave its approval."The project, which was first proposed in 2014, will be similar to the people mover at John F. Kennedy International Airport known as the AirTrain JFK.... <SNIP>

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Adam1222

Err, yes, thats what the story was talking about.

jspira

I was just following the comments and posts - i wouldn't bother clicking on any of the tpg stories and the headline wasn't display, hence my ignorance