Originally Posted by
Xyzzy
Well, if I'm wrong then how did the program work? When you have an unlimited lifetime flight pass and you want to take a flight how much does United charge y
u? I'm sure United assigned a fare bucket and knew what the fare calculation would be for that fare. Among other things that would tell them how much money he was costing them. But that's very different from a pass customer paying those amounts. After purchasing his pass, did Tom actually fork over any cash when booking? And please understand none of this has any bearing on how nice (or not) Tom is. I'm just talking d
llars here.
Reading the tea-leaves (no insider info, just thinking about the mechanics, way back all those years). I'm guessing he was issued a UATP credit at the start of the year and could burn through that, then when it got low, they refilled it, and that's the way it's been ever since. UATP while an international program, can also be limited on a per-airline basis. He essentially had a PassPlus account that never ran dry, again, my thoughts, nothing confirmed here. That'd be the easiest way to administer the thing.