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Jul 4, 2007, 12:58 pm
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I have pointed this out in the past -- and been sort of corrected! Take a look at
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=14479
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=14479
And first time I've heard Estonia would be a part of the Nordic countries. At least in Finland they still say there are five countries included and Estonia is not part of it - they belong to the Baltic countries.
Jul 4, 2007, 1:19 pm
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I'm amazed. This is something totally different (Finland part of Scandinavia) they told me in high school. Even SAS airlines always says Scandinavia and Finland (are they wrong then?). I don't consider myself as a Scandinavian (neither my Finnish friends).
And first time I've heard Estonia would be a part of the Nordic countries. At least in Finland they still say there are five countries included and Estonia is not part of it - they belong to the Baltic countries.
And first time I've heard Estonia would be a part of the Nordic countries. At least in Finland they still say there are five countries included and Estonia is not part of it - they belong to the Baltic countries.
Finland is not Scandinavia and Estonia is a Baltic Country
wikipedia shares my point of view:
Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The other Nordic countries, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, are also sometimes included because of their close historic and cultural relations to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
The Baltic states refer to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, all of which were controlled by the Soviet Union during 1940–1941 and 1944/1945–1991
Jul 5, 2007, 7:42 am
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We should also clarify the Latin America wording mess.
Discussed before here: http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=646235
In essence, having the word "Latin" in the forum title for "Latin/Central America" doesn't make sense. Latin America encompasses all of Central America, most of the Caribbean and most of South America. I suggest to simply rename the "Latin/Central America" forum to "Central America".
We would slag off airlines' FFP websites where award zones are classified so imprecisely, so we should set our standards for the structure of the forums just as high.
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Discussed before here: http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=646235
In essence, having the word "Latin" in the forum title for "Latin/Central America" doesn't make sense. Latin America encompasses all of Central America, most of the Caribbean and most of South America. I suggest to simply rename the "Latin/Central America" forum to "Central America".
We would slag off airlines' FFP websites where award zones are classified so imprecisely, so we should set our standards for the structure of the forums just as high.
SmilingBoy.
Jul 7, 2007, 2:51 pm
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It's now been a while and I still find this confusing. It would help a lot if the entries under each continent were indented in the "Forum Jump" list (and highlighted cities indented a bit further). I think that would end my confusion -- and maybe some others too?
Jul 8, 2007, 12:10 am
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I'd like to propose a Space Tourism (or, more accurately, Earth Orbit) subforum. OK, so it's $20M/ticket to date, but all indications are that the price is going to come down real fast, real soon.
Jul 8, 2007, 4:06 am
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It's my understanding you can only do this if you make them forums, subforums and sub sub forums of each other - and then it would be a nightmare on the forum listing, as the top level newest thread would be the latest thread in a large number of forums. Personally, I'd be opposed to giving US states forum status, while all other countries in the world don't even qualify for that!
Jul 15, 2007, 5:43 pm
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It's my understanding you can only do this if you make them forums, subforums and sub sub forums of each other - and then it would be a nightmare on the forum listing, as the top level newest thread would be the latest thread in a large number of forums. Personally, I'd be opposed to giving US states forum status, while all other countries in the world don't even qualify for that!
Jul 16, 2007, 12:50 am
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Jul 16, 2007, 1:52 am
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But the countries are already at the same level of hierarchy as the airline programmes. And 'Airline Programmes' is at the same level as 'Destination: The World' - so we are already using that level of category. So to indent further, we'd either need to promote the continents to master forum level (at the same level as the 'Airline Programmes' which also means that Australia and Antarctica would become single forum master forums like OMNI), or start making all the countries sub-forums of the continents (except some of the continent forums don't actually exist, so that would be kind of difficult), with cities at the sub-sub forum level (if such a thing exists).
Jul 16, 2007, 3:21 am
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But the countries are already at the same level of hierarchy as the airline programmes. And 'Airline Programmes' is at the same level as 'Destination: The World' - so we are already using that level of category. So to indent further, we'd either need to promote the continents to master forum level (at the same level as the 'Airline Programmes' which also means that Australia and Antarctica would become single forum master forums like OMNI), or start making all the countries sub-forums of the continents (except some of the continent forums don't actually exist, so that would be kind of difficult), with cities at the sub-sub forum level (if such a thing exists).
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