MSPeconomist

Her bio talks about finishing airplane pilot school and being unable to get a GOOD pilot job at an airline. Lots of pilots get experience in less than *good* jobs at the beginning of their careers, as do new entrants into a variety of other careers. Think of the beginning pilots in the BBC documentary series "The Worst Place to Be a Pilot" about Susi Air in Indonesia or even all of the young pilots in the USA who start by building hours on RJs working for airlines like SkyWest, Endeavor, Republic, American Eagle, etc. It's long hours for not a lot of money doing milk runs that are hardly glamorous, but it's still flying commercial passenger planes.

ftrichard

And here we all still are. Five pages in. Continuing to give her the oxygen of publicity that she so desperately craves to survive.

Despite an entire career in traditional and digital media, I'm glad that I am racing towards retirement and will no longer have to engage professionally with the kind of people who self-identify as influencers or their industry counterparts the KOLs. I remember one at the Aloft Taipei, an unremarkable hotel with an unremarkable small buffet breakfast, taking photos *with a digital camera* of every dish in the buffet and spending the meal studiously selecting the best shots and transferring them to her phone. She looked like a heroin-chic throwback to the 1990s. It was the ignored boyfriend I felt sorry for.

I have officially transformed into a Grumpy Old Man.

Astrophsx

Doesn't seem that different from a professional photographer that scans through hundreds of photos (if not thousands) to pick the select few that are publish quality.

Tanic

I think it's more likely that she is getting N2 rather than O2 from FTers. Just don't inhale too deeply dear...

ftrichard

You were there too? I was referring to the focus on photographing unextraordinary buffet food, the absence of engagement with her dining companion, and the sucked-in-cheeks 1990s heroin-chic look that appears so popular with Instagram influencers. But whatever. (And I don't consider "influencers" to be professional photographers.)

Dn10

Looks like she stayed at multiple Maldives hotels during her trip. Guessing they were all comped?

EuropeanPete

I note the article on Flyertalk.com reporting her claims as fact - which at least is less irresponsible and damaging than some of the misinformation the site has been spreading about Coronavirus in its editorial articles.

Intl359Widget

What do you expect from FlyerTalk? Their sensationalism and lack of professional journalism is why industry insiders don’t trust anything they say.

kennycrudup

Every now and then I get a reminder of the primary demographic of FT

msp3

Top kek at all the jealousy going around. Just because none of us are good looking enough (unfortunately) to be a model...