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I feel like they were both acting in bad faith. He blamed his alcoholism and depression, AA blamed the speculative purchases, there’s more to the story on both
by jquery 7y ago
I feel like they were both acting in bad faith. He blamed his alcoholism and depression, AA blamed the speculative purchases, there’s more to the story on both sides.
I completely sympathize with him emotionally. But at the same time, he had a golden ticket with rules, he broke the rules for a long time and it took AA and an army of investigators to prove it and a court that agreed. You can say they should’ve warned him, but that’s business, the court found him in breach of contract, a contract that was costing AA $millions, it’s no wonder they sued him for breach instead of warning him when his booked seats were empty most of the time. You don’t get to play the victim when you’re in breach of contract and costing the counter party millions. Again, I sympathize with him emotionally. It sucks. Life isn’t always roses. It would have been nice of AA to warn him, yes. But they weren’t obligated to, and he was a smart finance guy who understood contracts. Even he seems more upset that they were “mean” about it than surprised it happened at all.
- sverhagen 7y agoI agree with you. And while I am quite sympathetic to this gentleman's story myself, and while I also don't even think the revocation of the AAirpass for him was morally warranted (or at least there we go into the fuzzy details of the suit), I just wanted to add that the brief "FRAUDULENT USAGE" excerpt does not at all create an expectation to my "IANAL" eyes that there were any advance warnings to be expected. So, while I can see a legal argument over the validity of the cancellation, I don't see it over some demand of having to be warned ahead of time. But again, IANAL, just a guy.
- laGrenouille 7y agoI would generally agree with your logic, but the problem here is that he broke AA's interpretation of a vaguely worded rule rather than clearly committing a violation of the terms. Given this AA should have contacted him about their view of "fradulent" usage.
- DebtDeflation 7y ago> AA's interpretation of a vaguely worded rule It's debatable whether or not frequent speculative bookings constitute fraud. It's not debatable whether booking a seat for your luggage with the companion pass under a fake name is fraud.
- listenallyall 7y ago“The example given to me [by AA] was that Yo-Yo Ma ... flew with his [cello] in the next seat. Under those terms I bought the extra seat.” AA endorsed the practice.
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