Talkie's Clarifications
 

Several people have been emailing me questions about the talkies, so I figured I'd post some answers here, for all to see.

BTW: If you're not familiar with the talkies, see:
http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/001736.html

1) All flyertalkers(including employees of inside flyer and airline/hotel employees are eligible to vote)

2) Several people asked about more categories. I wanted to start off with the basics. I'm looking at running these several times a year, so we'll have the chance to include affinity cards and car rentals and such.

3) Can you vote for the same company both for the Best and Worst in the same category?

Yes, but perhaps you should check into Bellevue first http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

4) It was also suggested that I post a talkie's announcement in the various airline forums. I'm not a big fan of spam and it would be a lot of work. I didnt want to post to some of them, as it would appear like I was playing favorites. However if you wish to drum up support in your favorite forum, I think thats fair.

My goal was to create a method for us to be heard by the industry. The more of us that participate the better chance of that happening.

Thanks for the clarifications boomer.

For those FT's who may not know, Bellevue is not a hotel, but rather a well regarded NYC hospital with a fine reputation for treating the insane!

Doc:

I see you're aqquainted with Bellevue http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

A few questions AT LARGE --

1) I assume that in "best features," you are looking for generic features, like "systemwide upgrades" and not which airline has that 'best' feature, like "systemwide upgrades (Delta) ??"

3) Best airline -- including foreign or strictly US domestic ?? Two very different markets...

4) Best hotel -- Should I indicate a particular hotel (e.g. Westin, Crowne Plaza, etc.), or chain (e.g. Starwood, Holiday Inn, etc. ?)

Boomer, I bet you thought this was going to be easy, didn't you? http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Jgill:

As for best airline, I'm leaving that open to US and non-US airlines.

For feature I had in a feature of a particular airline, so if one airline has a restriction that another airline doesnt, you could call that a negative. It could also be something that has nothing to do with their FFP it might be some rule or cost they impose.

As for Hotels, It's by chain.

Note to Premex: I never thought it would be easy, lots of planning went into it, but I did think it would be lots of fun.