Best Airline Blog of 2008!

Flight Global has announced their 2008 Webbie Awards, including the BEST BLOG OF 2008! Whoo! Whoo! High Five! Wait. What? Fare Market Value wasn't even nominated?

Cue Phil Collins:
"...There must be some misunderstanding,
There must be some kind of mistake..."

Well, there's always next year. They'll probabaly sweeten the prize money by then, too. In the meantime, congratulations to the winner, http://www.jetwhine.com/ and finalists, crankyflier.com and http://www.blogsouthwest.com/. Fine blogs, every one. Keep up the great work!

The Buzz was NOT Palpable

OK, OK - we are late with Phocuswright posts - but we'll post our thoughts over the next few days...

The "big" (aka "paid") announcement on Day 1.0 @ PCW was the launch of a new travel web site site called Vibe Agent. Sit down, you're not going to believe how awesome this is. It is a site that combines (are you sitting?) hotel reviews, with meta-search, with social networking.


You can't make this stuff up. Maybe it's always been this way, but the travel space is starting to feel like the cliche world of Hollywood. "Let's make a SitCom about the GEICO Cavemen" sounds a lot like "Let's mash-up The Long Tail with Travel 2.0".

Best of luck to Vibe Agent. Seriously. More importantly, why are we writing this blog and not starting "Travel-Wad.com"? Which will get us a yacht quicker? Hmmm....

Back on the Wagon

Sorry Folks - FMV has been absent for a while. When we first started this blog - lots of people told us "well, don't quit your day job". Unfortunately, our day job slammed us with work last week and it's gotten in the way of posts.

What kind of world do we work in when your day job interferes with proper blogging?!!

Anyways - we're back at it and hope to make up for lost time. Thanks for your patience !