Airports are often terrible places to be. There are too many people rushing somewhere combined with too many cranky folks leaving somewhere mixed with annoying obstacles in the form of TSA security and rolling luggages. But it's just like that for us normal folk. For first class flyers? It's like being a rock star. One genius man took advantage of his rock star status and used one single first class airplane ticket to eat food for free for an entire year.
It's an absolutely brilliant ploy. You see, when you have a first class ticket, you can stroll into the fanciest VIP airport lounge and grab whatever you want because once you're inside that VIP lounge, anything you want—yes, including food—is free.
News.com.au relays a report from Kwong Wah Yit Poh of a genius man in China who took advantage of the free perks of those airport lounges. He booked a first class ticket on China Eastern Airlines and went to the VIP airport lounge at the Xi'an airport in Shaanxi, China and ate a delicious meal before his flight. Just like any first class traveler would. Except he never takes the flight. After he finished eating, the man changed his flight's departure for another day and went back home. Until tomorrow. Armed with a brand new first class ticket for a new day, he comes back to the airport lounge, eats another fantastic free meal and after he finishes up, yep, pushes his flight back again. Lather. Eat. Repeat. For free.
In fact, he pretty much got a year of free meals out of this trick because he changed his flight itinerary over 300 times in the same year. The man sure knows how to work a loophole.
The best part though? When China Eastern Airlines started investigating this heroic man for changing his flights too many times, he simply canceled his airplane ticket and got a full refund. Well done, sir. Well done.
Choco_Churro_Charlie on July 12nd, 2017 at 19:21 UTC »
He took all the prawns. He didn't even eat them. He, he just took them all.
TooShiftyForYou on July 12nd, 2017 at 17:44 UTC »
He only got caught because the airline had trouble handling his ticket. There were so many notations from prior cancellations that loading everything was taking forever in their systems. Most airline agents just thought it was running slow but eventually one of them saw the pages and pages or prior updates and went to grab a supervisor. Realizing he was caught, the man went to another counter to cancel his ticket and got the refund before the supervisor came back.
pighalf on July 12nd, 2017 at 17:25 UTC »
"Will you be checking in any bags today?"
"These are 'to go' bags."