- Southwest announces new flights to its biggest unserved metro area by Points With A Crew. I wish people would put more information in the title (they will be serving CVG). Great news for Southwest fans in that area or wanting to fly there.
- Governor Cuomo Just Announced Plans to Spend $10 Billion Fixing JFK Airport by View From The Wing. Would have liked to see what the plan is for mass transit, as that is the most important in my opinion. I’m also not sure why governments agree to these plans without also requiring companies that directly benefit to add funds to the total pool – but let’s say that argument for another day.
- Retail card offer roundup by PFdigest. Nice recap of his recent store card spending bonuses.
- 2017 College Football National Championship Game Promo Uber Offers Free Rides in Tampa, Florida by Uber Codes.
- Free Uber Rides At CES In Las Vegas by Pizza In Motion. More free Uber.
- Free $250 MXN ($11 US) Volaris Voucher for Using Mobile Check-In by Travel With Grant. Good deal if you have a flight with Volaris coming up.
While I will say that the line between an interesting headline and a “clickbait” one can be murky, I do feel as a writer that you can’t just give away the whole story in the headline.
If the headline said “Southwest adding service from Cincinnati to Chicago and Baltimore”, why would you click on it to read it?
You know I could have called it “You’ll never believe the 2 cities Southwest is flying to next! (#2 will blow you away!) 🙂
If the post doesn’t add much value to the reader, don’t post about it. The headline should summarize the article in a few words, and if the reader wants more details that’s what the article is for. If it is a PSA, perhaps no article is needed. This isn’t a novel where you don’t want to give a way the plot. I understand that your goal is to increase hits, but it is wasting people’s time.
Yeah, Doc.
Thanks for avoiding the click-bait titles, real or accidental!
No problem, it’s something I hate as a reader so I wouldn’t want to do it as a writer. I think you should try and give enough information as possible to your readers so they can decide if they want to read a particular article or not.
I noticed in this post and also previous recaps that although you are commenting on the article having an ambiguous / click-bait headline, you are linking to it nonetheless.
Yeah, it’s a practice I’m going to eliminate in the future.
As far as I can tell from other articles, the airlines and other businesses operating at JFK will pay about $7B of the $10B cost. I assume that’s inline with improvements at other airports, though I’m no expert.
Ah ok, that’s better. Obviously I didn’t read into this enough!