I assume they want Ben to be cancelled

If Brian Kelly hasn't been "canceled" after an article was posted discussing drug use and sexual harassment, it seems unlikely vague allegations of ... Being liberal ... Would lead to Ben's cancellations.

It�s not a complaint. We have the first amendment for a reason he can do whatever he wants. It�s just that his blog is becoming more and more political and I�m just confused as to why he doesn�t either: A) change to a political blog or B) sell it.

This is America, he can do whatever he wants. Just making observations which is what a forum is for.

I would assume he continues to do it because he enjoys it. Anyone who reads his blog can tell how passionate he is about air travel. I don’t get as excited about the journey as he does (I see it more of a necessity get where I want to go), but his enthusiasm means really informative airplane reviews.

If you can make a lot of money blogging about your obsession, and that involves luxury travel, well, why wouldn’t you keep doing it?

I guess ��more political� is technically correct as �every once in a while very rarely� from �never� is by definition more, but again if you don�t like it don�t read, and certainly don�t respond on a different forum about the blog.

Just took a quick look - on the first page right now, every story but two is aviation/hotels/points. (Exceptions are "travel influencer" and a bonus on Rakuten).

​​​​​​Yah and we are all saying your observations are unsupported by facts and illogical. If you hate liberals so much, why don't you either a) stop reading or b) go to OMNI/PR or a fox news forum.

That's not an accurate characterization of the blog, even as it has become more politically-charged in a way than it used to be. But a lot of this is driven as much by society at large and the audience for the blog as the blogger.

Some of the bigger BoardingArea.com and other miles/points/travel-covering blogs have become even more politically-charged than usual during this pandemic, but many of these blogs were already heavily loaded in this regard for quite some time and then some.

VFTW? Check. TheGate? Check. LiveandLetFly? Check. Dansdeals? Check. Why would OMAAT be an exception at this time?

Just because I don't always agree with the political stances of a travel-covering blogger -- or other travel sites' editorial angle/bending of a forum -- doesn't mean their site has no use for me and isn't still valuable for travel purposes. If anything, it's just par for the course that I and others in the audience have to sift and mine for information to find whatever ore/veins of material is valuable to us and accept the reality that trying to strip out all politics from travel forums is not too far removed from trying to fly commercially without petroleum-based jet-fuel.

With travel largely shut down I think most travel bloggers are simply trying to find something to write about that gets clicks. Political controversy is sure-fire clickbait.

social media / pressure bigger factor than audience

billion miles of award bookings = 7 figures in fees

credit card revenue not among top, not acquired

turkey was probably for value, regardless of details

in past admitted love of buffets outweighed germs

I don�t hate anybody. It just becomes annoying when you go to read airline news and it�s a bunch of posts about how bad Trump is, and how we need to save the planet.

And saving the planet involves him taking unnecessary trips around the world obviously...

You should ask for a refund from the airline news publication then.

I wasn�t aware there was an associated press of airline news organizations to ask for a refund to. This is why I come on this forum to learn new things by people so informative and smart like you. You�re so smart, and so great. God bless you.

That's your first mistake. It's 2020. If you don't hate somebody, you're doing something wrong.

Luckily, travel bloggers are now helping us determine who we should hate. Like that guy who killed Bin Laden, we definately hate him!

LOL! Love this!