2023-06-26 11:16:21
In 1992, the American businessman Tom Stuker had the good idea to buy a plane ticket valid for life on board United Airlines. Thirty years later, he has accumulated 37 million kilometers across the planet, report the Washington Post and BFMTV.
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At the time, Tom Stuker had to pay $290,000 to afford this luxury until the end of his days. A more than profitable business for this boss of a consulting firm specializing in the sale of cars. Indeed, in 31 years, he has traveled 37 million kilometers including 2.3 just for the year 2019 alone during which he accumulated 373 flights. That year, he would have had to pay $2.44 million at the standard rate. Something to bite your fingers on the side of the management of United Arlines. “The biggest mistake in the history of the company”, quips the Washington Post.
Tom Stuker, 69, flies between 200 and 250 days a year. He has visited more than a hundred countries and enjoyed, with his wife, “120 honeymoons”, he likes to repeat. And his privilege is not limited to getting on and off the plane for free, far from it. This eternal gratuity in fact authorizes him in spite of everything to also accumulate miles, and this in a particularly lucrative way. An almost indecent cascading source of benefits. The heist of the century.
Thus, these bonuses offered by airlines to customers allow them to obtain free stays in the largest hotels around the world, free meals in many restaurants, cruises at the expense of the princess and gift certificates from all kinds. “A Sultan’s life”, comments the Washington Post. He’s so overwhelmed with miles that he even financed the renovation of his brother’s house and donated 451,000 miles to charity to appear in an episode of the legendary series. Seinfeld.
For environmentalists, Tom Stuker is more of a “serial killer” of the planet. Faced with his accusers, he replies, fatalistic, that he is not making the situation worse: “The plane flies, whether I am on board or not…”
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