Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
Well, in that case they really only have themselves to blame. The whole thing is stupid to me. $350,000 sounds like a lot of money, but 'unlimited' airline use for someone who is retired and has the time could burn through that easily.
It seems to me that the airline was too busy chuckling to themselves over the sucker who bought their stupid 'lifetime pass' and counting their piles of gold coins to realize that he just turned around and started massively putting the screws to them.
|
I think it's also a product of a different era. Flights were rarely packed full like they are now so AA probably felt like they weren't really giving anything away besides a seat that would have been empty anyways. Airlines in particular seemed to be run in an incredibly bizarre fashion until they were forced to attempt to be real businesses over the last few years.