From where I stand, there's only one aviation writer with a skerrick of credibility; and that's Ben Sandilands - unfortunately, he 's not main stream.
Ben Sandilands is just a cranky old bugger with a bug up his ar$e!
GT is an honourable and accomplished writer, and does not mooch off airlines or anyone else as has been so subtly suggested on the previous page. Also, the point of writing an article or a news item is not always to expose something, but to also inform people.
And as for the suggestion that he was pissing in Airbus's pocket with that recent A380 article - I assure you there is NO love lost between GT and Airbus!