My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away

Post by dariusj18 » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC

bb88 wrote: post #9

whamlastxmas wrote: post #6

I have mixed feelings about this. It's clearly a wealthy guy being written about by his privileged daughter and he was was pretty reckless in using his unlimited pass. Entitled, maybe. It's hard to have much empathy. He missed 84% of his booked flights. That's a huge amount, and he did the same for his companion pass. He said himself that the pass had paid for itself for how much he flew so it's not exactly like AA i…

So missing 84% of booked flights is not like a big deal on scale the size of American. Notably because the seat just will just open up for someone else to sit in. Either the plane leaves full of passengers or it doesn't. It was also pretty common practice to overbook flights starting in the 2000's. As to the confusion of self with your airline status, I would say it's pretty bad if you were able to fly anywhere for f…