Originally Posted by
octopic
It wasn't Cornyn. I'm pretty sure this person doesn't have status on CO as most of their 2008 flying was not commercial (that's a big hint as to who it was). Also, their aide said that they were "upgraded", which implies (at least to me) that it wasn't a paid F ticket.
I heard the FAs on my IAH-CLE flight this morning talking about him. You are correct, I would bet he didn't do ANY commercial flying in the first 10 months of last year.