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May 7, 2012 12:03 am PDT
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AAirpass: American Airlines's all-you-can-eat lifetime first class ticket, and what became of it
The LA Times's Ken Bensinger tells the fascinating, dirty story of American Airlines's AAirpass, a too-good-to-be-true lifetime first-class-ticket-to-anywhere-anytime pass that the airline debuted in 1981 at $250,000 (the last one offered, in the 2004 Neiman-Marcus Christmas Catalog, was priced at $3,000,000, but none sold). Purchasers could also buy companion tickets they could use to fly [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8ERQmdz5Dn4/aairpass-american-airliness.html
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