FLYERTALK.COM TOPS 3,000,000 POSTS In Just Its Sixth Year, Site Becomes Second Largest Online Travel Community

FlyerTalk.com reinforced its position as the worlds most popular frequent flyer community today as it logged its 3,000,000th user post.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO (PRWEB) July 19, 2004 -- Introduced in May of 1998 by Randy Petersen, publisher of InsideFlyer magazine and WebFlyer.com, FlyerTalk averages over 750,000 visitors each month and has witnessed exponential growth during its six-year lifetime. After achieving 1,000,000 posts in its first four years of existence, FlyerTalk has seen that number triple in the past two years.

"I am proud of the fact that FlyerTalk has become the place to meet online and discuss the topics of frequent flyer programs and travel," says Petersen. "But the credit for the phenomenal success of FlyerTalk goes to the members of the community and their readiness to share and help one another. It has become a model community of deep connections. FlyerTalk is a real-world community of people sharing their thoughts and opinions -- unified around the themes of frequent flyer programs and travel, topics that are endlessly interesting and surprising."

According to www.big-boards.com, a site that tracks statistics for most of the worlds largest bulletin board Web sites, FlyerTalk is the second largest travel-related online community in the world in terms of total post count, and it is the largest based on posts-per-member. In fact, only 93 online communities of any type can claim more total posts than FlyerTalk.

Currently, nearly 4,000 posts are added to FlyerTalk on average each day. At its current rate of growth, FlyerTalk should achieve its 4-millionth post in about 10 months.

FlyerTalk.com is a product of Frequent Flyer Services and is included in the award-winning WebFlyer Network of sites. Other sites that make up the network include WebFlyer.com, which has been voted Best of the Web" by Forbes and PC Magazine, InsideFlyer.com, MileageManager.com and MileDonor.com.

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