What other boards do your read?
 

This site has provided me a wealth of information and I am traveling smarter and more comfortably as a result of my participation.

What other internet sites do my fellow FT'ers read regularly for additional information on the travel/hospitality industry?

I found Fodors.com to have a lot of information on Italy. I haven't had the time to check other locations at that site.

http://www.disboards.com (only the Universal and "Transportation" boards)

http://pub4.ezboard.com/bpricelineandexpediabidding (for my cheap hotels and rental cars ... and occasional last minute ticket needs)

www.flyersplaces.com

A community board for recommending your favorite hotels, restaurants and bars. Very much like this board. In fact, you will find many of the same users (with the same user names) on that board.

Highly recommended.

(I wish more of the "what should I do?" "where should I stay?" questions raised on this FF board were directed to flyersplaces.com like they should be.)

Second the recco for flyers'places. I believe it's meant to be a supplement to Flyertalk, not a rival. People should check it for restaurant info; for one thing, you often get better, fuller reviews than people want to post on FT.

Planebusiness, of course, is a biggie, which focuses on the business side of things (surprise) sort of, anyway. You get lots of pilots, some other airline employees, some interested pax, etc. LexPax posts there a lot. I read occasionally.

Funnily enough, one of the most recent times I was reading Planebusiness, a topic called What other boards do you read was then current there. Flyertalk got mentioned a couple times as the best "other" board. But we also get called opprobrious names by some of the planebusiness guys.

Planebusiness guys often refer to another board as "airwhiners.net" - there are other opinions of it, of varying flavors, (wasn't this discussed someplace on FT recently?) but it does at least seem a good resource for pix of planes.

Other boards BESIDES Flyertalk????

There's the Professional Pilot's Rumour Network....

http://www.pprune.org

for a glimpse inside the cockpit.



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Over & Out.

There is a new, easier to remember URL for the 'Informed Priceline Travel Bidding Forum... (Where we learn to make travel affordable)

It can be found here http://www.BiddingForTravel.com/

I set my newsreader to rec.travel.air and keep up with that group.



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Celebrating 4 years of United Airlines free travel this August!

Sheryl's BiddingForTravel board, Holly's PlaneBusinesss board, and Yahoo's USAirways board for some good laughs. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

If you want to know what the crew thinks then visit www.crewstart.com

For fans of Las Vegas, here is a specialized board

I read:

www.FlyerTalk.com
www.FlyersPlaces.com
www.Airliners.net
www.Pprune.org

used to read:

www.moremiles.org (not the real URL, that is private)

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Dorian

Shhhh..., http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif and FWIW, this very topic has also been previously raised for discussion:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum94/HTML/001075.html