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I have mixed feelings about this. It's clearly a wealthy guy being written about by his privileged daughter and he was was pretty reckless in using his unlimite
by whamlastxmas 7y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. It's clearly a wealthy guy being written about by his privileged daughter and he was was pretty reckless in using his unlimited pass. Entitled, maybe. It's hard to have much empathy. He missed 84% of his booked flights. That's a huge amount, and he did the same for his companion pass. He said himself that the pass had paid for itself for how much he flew so it's not exactly like AA is taking advantage of some middle class nobody that spent a significant chunk of their lifetime income on this.
Still, AA was shitty in their response. It was dumb of AA to offer this to begin with. And the author's dad was clearly struggling with depression, substance abuse, and grief.
I don't really know where I'm going with this. I guess I just find the eccentric details of the lives of the wealthy to be tiresome to read about.
edit: I guess this is a dupe and these thoughts were all already expressed in old version
- bb88 7y agoSo missing 84% of booked flights is not like a big deal on scale the size of American. Notably because the seat just will just open up for someone else to sit in. Either the plane leaves full of passengers or it doesn't. It was also pretty common practice to overbook flights starting in the 2000's. As to the confusion of self with your airline status, I would say it's pretty bad if you were able to fly anywhere for free especially for 20 years, and then lost that ability. However, it just means you would pay for flights, which seems like something fairly easy to get over, especially if you're wealthy.
- dariusj18 7y agoAs long as they refund him with interest I'd say it was fair-ish.