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> they could have just asked According to court documents they asked him when he was using fake names[1] in 2004. Instead he switched to names of friends that
by josefx 7y ago
> they could have just asked
According to court documents they asked him when he was using fake names[1] in 2004. Instead he switched to names of friends that never showed up. They didn't terminate him until 2008.
> He canceled so many flights because he thought that was allowed.
He also made reservations for people that either didn't exist or had no idea that he made them. And in contrast to the article he didn't just do it to get space, he apparently let strangers he met at the airport use the seats.
> AA didn't give him a single warning.
Warned in 2004 terminated in 2008
[1] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/illinois/ilndce/1:2009cv02770/231263/95/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/illinoi...
- matthewdgreen 7y agoReading that decision: it looks like Rothstein specifically asked the sales agent what constituted "fraudulent use" at the time he purchased the pass. The court doesn't explain the agent's response, but goes on to argue that Rothstein could have forced the company to include it into the contract language -- and since he did not do that, that response doesn't bind the company. Again, I don't know what the actual response was, but this hints that the explanation Rothstein was given at sales time was not the same as what American enforced upon him. I guess this may be a reasonable legal outcome, but it doesn't seem terribly just.