American Airlines gold-plated life-time pass

[Rory Fitzgerald]

AA sold unlimited tickets for USD 250,000 back in the 80's - 1st class, anytime to anywhere in the world.

 

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506

 

Here are some beauts!

 

- In one 25-day span this year, Joyce flew round trip to London 16 times, flights that would retail for more than $125,000. He didn't pay a dime.

 

- He was airborne almost every other day. If a friend mentioned a new exhibit at the Louvre, Rothstein thought nothing of jetting from his Chicago home to San Francisco to pick her up and then fly to Paris together.

 

- In July 2004, for example, Rothstein flew 18 times, visiting Nova Scotia, New York, Miami, London, Los Angeles, Maine, Denver and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., some of them several times over.

 

- Creative uses seemed limitless. When bond broker Willard May of Round Rock, Texas, was forced into retirement after a run-in with federal securities regulators in the early 1990s, he turned to his trusty AAirpass to generate income. Using his companion ticket, he began shuttling a Dallas couple back and forth to Europe for $2,000 a month.