Originally Posted by
mileage junkie
And while we're on the subject......
I assume many of you read the Conde Nast Traveler article from last Febrauary entitled "Triumph of the Air Warriors." (One thread alone on MilesBuzz that links to it has been viewed 4000+ times)
In light of the conversation we've been having on this thread, I'd be interested in any and all comments on THIS excerpt from the article:
<< "My own initiation into Airworld happened by sheer luck. An impish mileage runner named Marty passed me in the terminal on our last afternoon in Frankfurt...
....Marty hatched a plan at the bar that night to smuggle five of us into Lufthansa's first-class terminal. He knew the stipulations by heart: Each passenger is allowed a guest as long as he or she is booked on the same flight. We would get around that by upgrading one of us using his method and by booking me a first-class ticket on their flight to LAX. Seeing that my eyes went wide at this, he brushed it off. "No worries," he said. "It's a fully refundable ticket. You'll cancel it the moment you leave the terminal." >>
Thoughts ?
Completely inappropriate. And there was hell to pay from that story's publication. A lot of people associated with that event - both internal to LH and the FTers who coordinated the event - caught a lot of flak because of that.
Just because something is wrong doesn't mean people won't try to rationalize it. The fact that there is so much discussion and justification being bandied about doesn't make it any better.