Originally Posted by
DJ_Iceman
As for the lifetime pass, I have mixed feelings. People who bought them (for a WHOLE LOT of money back in the day) seemed to enter into a contract for, well... a lifetime pass. But if said people abused it, playing fast and loose with the gray areas, then not only did they give the airlines the leverage they needed to cancel the pass, maybe it actually makes me sympathetic to the airlines.
And if they didn’t abuse it, then the airlines made a bad bargain, and it was on them to honor their contract. Not to whine about it because they didn’t scope the program better.