For those of you who miss wearing or using FlyerTalk-branded items since the original FlyerTalk store temporarily closed, your suffering from withdrawal is finally over.  The FlyerTalk Store is now open for business!

Once again, you may purchase such items as FlyerTalk shirts, coffee mugs, tote bags, water bottles, clocks, teddy bears, key chains, magnets, buttons, and even food and water dishes for your pets.

By the way, in case you were wondering: yes, the infamous classic FlyerTalk thong is once again available for purchase.

…but not for long.

Join FlyerTalk member dhammer53 on the 11th Annual Brooklyn Reality Tour – June 4, 2011. Saturday. Eat traditional Brooklyn cuisine, see Brooklyn landmarks and enjoy the company of a few dozen FlyerTalk members on what could be the final Brooklyn Reality Tour…

…and while attending the Brooklyn Reality Tour, ensure that you also attend the Soup DO 8 Fri June 3 2011 and the WineDo 4 – Sunday June 5, 2011 NYC – Tribeca – post BRT.

Imagine — three separate FlyerTalk member gatherings within one weekend in New York. Better yet, instead of imagining — register today and attend!

FlyerTalk member wsucougarchick05 has asked for prayers before regarding her grandfather from fellow FlyerTalk members, but she says “I asked for prayers ’round this time last year…I’m asking for them again…” regarding the baby boy of a friend of hers who was diagnosed with a rare blood disease in October and recently received a life-saving bone marrow transplant from his big brother. She includes a link to a weblog with plenty of photographs and information regarding the progress of the baby boy whose name is Liam.

Please show some support as other FlyerTalk members already have. Thank you in advance.

FlyerTalk member UNITED863 posts A tribute to Moms who raised a Flyertalker this Mother’s Day in honor of his own mother, whose unconditionally-loving mother risked trespass charges back in the 1980s to get her son something unique for his birthday from the employee gift shop from the world headquarters of United Airlines.

What exactly did she buy for her son?

Anyway, Happy Mother’s Day!

Making it easy to recognize company representatives by having the FlyerTalk name of the representative in green as well as the title Company Representative is meant to enhance your FlyerTalk experience in case you need to contact an official company representative through FlyerTalk, or to ensure that promotions, information or news posted regarding that particular company are indeed official.

More and more company officials representing companies such as hotels, credit cards and airlines are now using FlyerTalk to post news, promotions and information, as well as to communicate with their customers.

The Continental OnePass forum and the original United Mileage Plus forum are now sub-forums, or “child” forums, of the new consolidated United Mileage Plus forum on FlyerTalk, as a result of the eventual merger of the OnePass and Mileage Plus frequent flier loyalty programs.

However, FlyerTalk members debate in a civil manner as to whether the consolidation of these forums happened too soon with An open question to moderators RE: this United consolidated forum., as well as thank the moderators of the consolidated forum for their continued dedication and service.

It is April 1 once again, and that means that the pranksters are out weaving their fun throughout the forums on FlyerTalk.

Let’s create a game out of this: do you think you can correctly guess which of the following fifteen FlyerTalk discussion topics — all launched today — are real, and which are merely pranks for April Fool’s Day?

1. Air New Zealand Fare Glitch Discovery
2. New IATA interline baggage rules
3. YVR Voted Best Airport in North America
4. New FA Uniforms
5. Unbelievable deal from Sniqueaway
6. Press Release– Silver Elite arrested for sitting in first class
7. Fuel surcharges magically doubled this morning
8. Mainline for Elites Only!
9. TSA agents pick a preteen/early teen girl for “additional screening”
10. AA Introduces AAirwaves Live Cockpit Radio to Select Aircraft
11. Gmail Paper — new service
12. Free 2,500 Hilton HHonors points
13. Pistole Announces ‘Enemas For Enemies’ Program
14. Ryan Air Finally Doing Something Right!
15. FlyerTalk.com Launches World’s Largest Single Airline Discussion Board

FlyerTalk member boxo is asking for you to “Please vote for my KLM luggage tag!”

As of the time this was posted here in The Gate, her entry is currently in fifth place with 1,313 votes. Her entry currently needs 3,840 votes to overtake first place, and that is where you come in.

If her entry is the winning one on March 21, which is when the contest concludes, she will win a new Apple iPad.

All that is required of you is a few seconds of your time to simply vote for her entry — no registration is required, and you can vote anonymously to help give boxo the luck of the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day.

Please spread the word to family and friends to vote for boxo!

An Amicable Resolution over a legal contract dispute has been reached between Internet Brands, the company based in El Segundo, California that currently owns FlyerTalk, and Randy Petersen, the founder of FlyerTalk.

The Gate first broke the news regarding the lawsuit on June 13, 2010.

Details regarding the contract dispute and its settlement are undisclosed and remain confidential. Nevertheless, “as always, Randy and Internet Brands support the FlyerTalk community and its continued success.”

FlyerTalk member pmocek has been found by a jury not guilty of all four charges levied against him in what is being considered a landmark case pertaining to the rights of passengers when traveling.

The Gate first reported on this story back on November 16, 2009, and many FlyerTalk members are rejoicing at the decision of the court regarding how pmocek was arrested at the airport security checkpoint in Albuquerque, New Mexico for refusing to show his identification upon demand of Transportation Security Administration, or TSA.

Start reading here for the portion of the story after the verdict was reached which, among other things, includes a first-hand account of the court proceedings by FlyerTalk member bdschobel who was personally in the courtroom, as well as a link to a video of the actual incident which precipitated this court case.

To start from the beginning to get the complete story, please read the Flyer “Processed” (Arrested?) in NM After Declining to Show ID thread.