Frequent flier has wings clipped after American Airlines takes away unlimited pass

[TMMT]

Frequent flier has wings clipped after American Airlines takes away his unlimited pass

http://nypost.com/2012/05/13/freequ...rican-airlines-takes-away-his-unlimited-pass/

Steve Rothstein bought a golden ticket from American Airlines in 1987 ? granting him a lifetime of unlimited travel.

He clocked more than 10 million miles and 10,000 flights at a cost to AA of $21 million

Everybody, even American?s CEO, knew his name.

 

[DUBLINFLYER]

Good for him, I hope he gets his pass back,

 

[RJLoser]

Impressive!
* 10,000: Number of flights
* 10 million: Miles traveled
* 40 million: Frequent-flier miles earned
* 500: Trips to England
* 70: Trips to Australia
* 120: Tokyo flights
* $21 million: Cost of the flights to American Airlines

 

[PCL_128]

Sounds like he did commit fraud to me. No sympathy.

 

[Mamma]

Sounds like he did commit fraud to me. No sympathy.

Sounds like fraud? Do you have a copy of his contract with American? "Sounds like" and "is" are way different things. Just ask Bill Clinton.

 

[PCL_128]

Seeing as how one judge already threw out his case, I think it's probably safe to say that his contract didn't allow him to use fake names to get other people tickets.

 

[ableone]

When they needed cash American sold this guy a pass for $250,000 plus a $150,000 companion pass. Now that times are flush and this contract is costing them money American is looking for a way to terminate the contract. They as much as admitted by combing through all the passes they had sold to look for a way to revoke them.

Pretty typical corporate behavior. "A contract is a contract" and "the government needs to stay out of our way" are mantra when it benefits them but as soon as circumstances shift contracts are unimportant and socialist government handouts are somehow acceptable capitalist ideals.

Booking a ticket in the name "Bag" because he didn't yet know who he was going to take with him is hardly fraudulent behavior.

I hope he gets punitive damages.

 

[Freebrd]

^^^ agree! Wonder how many others they've done this to that aren't commenting publically?

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Now, I've only heard one side of the story, but it didn't seem as if he intended to defraud poor old American Airlines of anything he didn't already have.

 

[BuckMurdock1]

If nothing else; it really makes me appreciate the jumpseating privilege we all enjoy. Dude paid $250K for unlimited flying on one airline. All of us have (in theory) unlimited flying on just about every airline. just sayin.