The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
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The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
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Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#2Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20510933
Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#3I think this is about the fourth time I've seen this story on HN.
Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#4I think this is about the fourth time I've seen this story on HN.
At least ..
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=golden+airline+ticket
Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#5I think this is about the fourth time I've seen this story on HN.
... and the fourth time I've rolled my eyes at the idea international day trips by air were "integral to his being" or whatever the exact wording of that legal stretch-of-the-imagination was.
Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#6He was sorta abusing it and airlines have tiny margins, so sooner or later they had to put a stop to it.
Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#7The most important thing about this story is the fact that there is in this world a man called Jacques Vroom.
Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#8A Wikipedia article lists the following reasons for the pass termination of Steve Rothstein:
> the pass had been terminated due to fraudulent behavior, specifically his history of approaching passengers at the gate and offering them travel on his companion seat and for using the companion program to purchase an adjacent empty seat under a fake name to keep them vacant, which was often used for privacy or extra carry-on luggage.
Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#9The most important thing about this story is the fact that there is in this world a man called Jacques Vroom.
Vroom means pious in Dutch. That may explain it's use as a family name.
Re: The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket (2019)
#10A Wikipedia article lists the following reasons for the pass termination of Steve Rothstein: > the pass had been terminated due to fraudulent behavior, specifically his history of approaching passengers at the gate and offering them travel on his companion seat and for using the companion program to purchase an adjacent empty seat under a fake name to keep them vacant, which was often used for privacy or extra carry-…
Ah I didn't know this, and the author mentioned it but obviously glossed over the details... more details here: https://casetext.com/case/rothstein-v-american-airlines