Man who bought $250k unlimited flyer pass in 80s gets pass taken away
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Re: Man who bought $250k unlimited flyer pass in 80s gets pass taken away
#2In 2008, and this article is from 2012
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#4In 2008, and this article is from 2012
But it was on the top of Reddit so of course it needs to be reposted to HN.
As for conversation sake, the guy would reserve seats for phoney people, then not show up to them, costing the airline money. I don't feel sorry for him in the least, he had a good thing, and he took advantage of it in any way possible.
The whole "company is screwing me" is more like "the company is finally protecting their assets because they are tired of people not following rules."
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#5Every private person who made a mistake, has to suffer through the consequences. Big companies and banks seem to have found better solutions.
Mr. Rothstein should have guessed, that AA only waited for him to break the contract. He could have read it even in the news. So why did he run into that trap?
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#6>An AA employee gave him a letter saying his pass had been terminated due to fraudulent activity.
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Rothstein filed a lawsuit and a federal judge in Illinois ruled against him for booking under phony names.
If the falsified names was a legitimate grievance by American Airlines, it's interesting that NYPost chooses to leave "fraudulent" out of the story's title and instead, buries it at the bottom.
I believe Mark Cuban still has his AA lifetime pass. I don't know if he books false names to game the unlimited pass to his advantage.
I've read that some folks who sold their frequent flyer miles on ebay have had their mileage forfeited.
Re: Man who bought $250k unlimited flyer pass in 80s gets pass taken away
#7In 2008, and this article is from 2012
But it was on the top of Reddit so of course it needs to be reposted to HN. As for conversation sake, the guy would reserve seats for phoney people, then not show up to them, costing the airline money. I don't feel sorry for him in the least, he had a good thing, and he took advantage of it in any way possible. The whole "company is screwing me" is more like "the company is finally protecting their assets because the…
> As for conversation sake, the guy would reserve seats for phoney people, then not show up to them, costing the airline money. I don't feel sorry for him in the least, he had a good thing, and he took advantage of it in any way possible.
Unrealized revenue is not the same as costing someone money.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it was on the top of Reddit so of course it needs to be reposted to HN. As for conversation sake, the guy would reserve seats for phoney people, then not show up to them, costing the airline money. I don't feel sorry for him in the least, he had a good thing, and he took advantage of it in any way possible. The whole "company is screwing me" is more like "the company is finally protecting their assets because the…
> As for conversation sake, the guy would reserve seats for phoney people, then not show up to them, costing the airline money. I don't feel sorry for him in the least, he had a good thing, and he took advantage of it in any way possible. Unrealized revenue is not the same as costing someone money.
> Unrealized revenue is not the same as costing someone money.
Every seat on an airplane that's moved from airport A to airport B costs some money. If he booked a flight without the intention of showing up, then he did cost the company money.
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#9"Last summer, an Illinois federal judge ruled that Rothstein had violated the contract by booking empty seats under phony names, including Bag Rothstein. American had years earlier acknowledged that "airport personnel have become complacent" with the practice, court records show, and Soter planned to appeal. But that case and Vroom's were thrown into limbo when American's parent company, AMR Corp., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November."
http://alumni.brown.edu/classes/1972/FrequentFlyerSteveRoths...