What on earth has politics got to do with the price of fish in China?? My original post was a genuine one because I really don't know what you don't know about aviation. Your message seemed to indicate you didn't know why airlines overbooked so I took the liberty of explaining it. My apologies if I misunderstood but your semi-sarcastic response about being a list member was unnecessary. Or did I misunderstand that also? It's easy to do when you can't see expressions or hear tonal intonations. I don't mean to "sit in my little box at Kingsford Smith" (we call it KSA and I don't actually work on the airport) and "snipe at you" but if you've perceived me that way, it's probably because your posts do irritate me a little at times. This is mainly because you come across as believing your opinions to be rock solid fact instead of just an opinion. Given the clashes you sometimes have with other list members, it appears I'm not the only one who thinks this. For the record, I usually enjoy your posts as it's good to have such an active list member but maybe you could be a little less sensitive to criticism. There are a lot of very experienced people on this list (and Skyone, have you thought about joining there?) and if they correct you on something, it's usually because they know what they are talking about. Grant SYD QF BTW I can't get you any cheap tix to Aus. We don't have the buddy system at QF, the only way I could get you a staff travel tix would be to nominate you as my travel companion which is for a minimum of 12 months and my wife would NOT be impressed at being bumped!! At 08:44 PM 12/08/03 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 8/12/2003 5:25:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, >gjmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > ><< I don't know your background so I have no idea of what you do or don't > know. Some of your other posts indicate a degree of ignorance of various > aspects of airline/aviation matters. You'd be a rare person if you knew > everything about aviation. Nobody else on the list does (except Poon, > maybe!) > >So, now we are 14 years old? If you really want to get into this, you don't >seem to know too much about politics, and the degree of ignorance in your >political statements seems to say something Grant. You may work for high and >mighty Qantas, but I am an active poltical scientist who happens to know >something >about airplanes and airlines and loves them even more. I don't think I know >everything about aviation, and have never made that claim. Then again, you >sit in your little box at Kingsford Smith and snipe at me any chance you get. > > Raped in LA eh? You keep banging on about having lower fares, do you know > how much it actually costs to fly a seat from A to B. >> > >All I know is that my friends in Australia have bought tickets on QF MEL-LAX >and SYD-LAX for about 500 US. The lowest I can get, even with hotwire, is >over 800. That is a huge difference, but then again, I am an idiot and >probably >cannot do math anyway