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Selling the companion ticket falls outside of my definition of "reasonable use".

The article I read said they were annoyed that some of these guys would actually use the tickets to, you know, fly places, all the time. As if they had unlimited access.

Did they really expect to sell a $400k item so somebody and for the buyer to fly three times a year?

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"Rothstein made 3,009 reservations in less than four years, almost always booking two seats, but canceled 2,523 of them."

Sounds like he was not actually using the ticket to, you know, fly places.

So what? How far ahead of the flights did make the reservations, and how far ahead did he cancel?

Are we really saying that the handful of wealthy people who bought unlimited tickets are to blame for AA's problems, and not the fact that AA appears to have been bad math?

People were making booking on 3-4 flights per day, on the same route, and just showing up to the one that suited them best on the day.

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