This seems akin to some of the "lifetime free XYZ" offers you saw a lot of .com companies were offering. They didn't really mention in their advertising blitzes that it was their lifetime that they were talking about, not yours.
The company from which TWA retirees retired (and which gave them them lifetime non-rev passes) will no longer exist....
[This message has been edited by pshuang (edited 01-15-2001).]