> of the 3,009 flight segments Dad booked for himself from May 2005 to December 2008, he either canceled or was considered a “no-show” for 84% of those reservations. During the same time period, he booked 2,648 flight segments for travel companions, and 2,269 were either canceled or a no-show.
The guy booked 5659 flights in 3 years (that's basically 5 per day) and almost didn't show up to any of them.
I don't really care about anything else, I even stopped reading at that point. I'm on AAs side here, fuck that guy. Of course they're going to cancel you for misuse, that is clear and severe misuse by any standard.
giving access to the world like he had? it did no such thing.
the pass was $250k in the early 80s. that is a tremendous amount of money for a 37 year old in current year.
this was an individual, a family, so far removed from commoners that the parents had it in the contract to fly on separate planes, one after the other. lest both parents be lost in an accident.
what a luxury, to be able to even pause to consider such contingency planning. let alone to have the means to pursue it.
while the airline was wrong, this is no sob story.