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American Airlines (Including Legacy US Airways) Celebrity Sightings (and Related) for 2015
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[Archived] AA + LUS Celebrity Sightings and Related for 2015 (consolidated)
Sep 10, 2015, 4:59 pm
#106
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Posts: 543
Just got off a DFW-LAX flight with Ben Schlappig (does he count?) and someone else who looked VERY familiar. Some of the AA staff was fawning over him, but I don't watch much TV so honestly I have no idea. An older guy that I usually associate with bow ties and late night comedy, but that may not be accurate.
Sep 11, 2015, 4:02 pm
#107
Join Date: May 2006
Location: SAN
Programs: Lots of faux metal
Posts: 6,425
Just got off a DFW-LAX flight with Ben Schlappig (does he count?) and someone else who looked VERY familiar. Some of the AA staff was fawning over him, but I don't watch much TV so honestly I have no idea. An older guy that I usually associate with bow ties and late night comedy, but that may not be accurate.
Sep 12, 2015, 9:29 pm
#108
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: BOS/UTH
Programs: AA LT PLT; QR GLD; Bonvoy LT TIT
Posts: 12,764
Sep 13, 2015, 3:05 pm
#109
Suspended
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,273
Sep 13, 2015, 4:26 pm
#110
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: ORD
Programs: status free since 2017
Posts: 2,188
Sep 19, 2015, 10:26 am
#112
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Location: PHX & AGP
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Posts: 11,463
It sure does look like him. But according to this http://www.celebritynetworth.com/ric...son-net-worth/ his net worth is $160M. Surprised if he's worth that much he doesn't have or lease a private jet.
Sep 19, 2015, 10:28 am
#113
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Location: PHX & AGP
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Sep 19, 2015, 11:04 am
#114
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 474
I'm pretty sure I talked with Jerry Brown about the Republican debate on the TV in the LAX Flagship on 16 September.
Sep 21, 2015, 8:31 am
#115
Join Date: Oct 2010
Programs: AA ex-EXP (buh-bye!), HH Gold, SPG Gold, UM Go Blue
Posts: 543
Clearly Ben gets special treatment from AA. I don't know if it is CK or what, but AA knows when he is flying, and I am sure goes out of their way to make his travel easier. Point being, take everything on his blog with a grain of salt - just because it happened to him does not mean it would happen to you.
Sep 21, 2015, 3:23 pm
#116
Join Date: Nov 2005
Programs: Chick-Fil-A Red, Wawa, Red Cross blood donor
Posts: 4,826
Bill Murray this morning on flt 835 PHL-CLT.
Based on the number of people who were talking about him while deboarding, he is clearly a well-liked (loved?) man.
Based on the number of people who were talking about him while deboarding, he is clearly a well-liked (loved?) man.
Sep 21, 2015, 9:41 pm
#117
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: PHL
Programs: AA - Plat, HHonors - Diamond, IHG - Plat, Marriott - Gold, National - Exec, Amtrak - Select, NEXUS
Posts: 1,075
I wondered why he was in Philly, until I read:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/t...a-wedding.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/t...a-wedding.html
Oct 3, 2015, 12:26 pm
#118
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: ONT
Programs: AA Gold, WN A-, UA S, HH ♦, IHG Spire, Hertz Prez O, TSA Disparager
Posts: 2,159
Former CIA director General Michael Hayden was in the DFW T3 AC last night.
Oct 3, 2015, 1:37 pm
#119
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 4,220
He seemed normal enough but there was one thing that was weird. He was listed in the manifest with some special notation that the FA did not recognize. She came over and talked to him about it, I think it said it looked like he was a nonrev or something. She was surprised at the notation - "I've never seen that before!"
Clearly Ben gets special treatment from AA. I don't know if it is CK or what, but AA knows when he is flying, and I am sure goes out of their way to make his travel easier. Point being, take everything on his blog with a grain of salt - just because it happened to him does not mean it would happen to you.
Clearly Ben gets special treatment from AA. I don't know if it is CK or what, but AA knows when he is flying, and I am sure goes out of their way to make his travel easier. Point being, take everything on his blog with a grain of salt - just because it happened to him does not mean it would happen to you.
Oct 3, 2015, 2:17 pm
#120
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: ASE
Programs: UA 1MM, AA1MM PLTPRO, Hertz PC, National EXC, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton/Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum
Posts: 3,357
<Off-topic>Wow. I must refute FlightNurse's statement. Ben is an amazingly down-to-earth, generous person. </off-topic>