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one 1st class ticket = free food forever

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http://sploid.gizmodo.com/genius-ma...-airplane-ticket-to-eat-1510242296/@caseychan

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.
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Genius
 
need to find domestic airline with no reschedule/cancellation fee ASAP. Works great as long as you live near an airport and can get there for minimal cost.

I mean using that logic, couldn't you basically be...homeless?
 
Ns1 said:
need to find domestic airline with no reschedule/cancellation fee ASAP. Works great as long as you live near an airport and can get there for minimal cost.

I mean using that logic, couldn't you basically be...homeless?
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You don't need that, you just need a refundable fare.

Also, to save you some time, all domestic airlines have pretty shitty food in their lounges. Your better bet is a foreign carrier with their own branded, non-contract lounge at your closest airport. Even better if that airport is an alliance hub or a major gateway city (LAX, SFO, JFK, IAD and the like).

Eventually, though, CBP might call you because your name keeps showing up every day on their APIS list. Probably not anything illegal-in-the-CBP sense, but they might ask.

Oh, for anyone holding an Amex Plat/Cent card, the Centurion Lounge at LGA is slated to be landside - you wouldn't even need to clear security to go in. Hell, at the moment, the access policy says they don't necessarily ask for - but reserve the right to verify - a same day boarding pass. Of course, that lounge isn't built yet.
 
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SandEagle said:
lol when they caught on to his scheme, he canceled the ticket for a full refund. this man deserves an award.
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They caught on, but he wasn't doing anything wrong. He refunded the ticket because it was close to expiration - most airline tickets are valid for 1 year following original ticketing. It was a refundable fare that he kept changing, but reissuing the ticket in that way doesn't reset the 1 year clock.

I used to work within walking distance of DCA, and we'd talk about buying refundable tickets so we could get Five Guys on the north pier - never did it though. Now I feel like I should have, and capped it off with free beers at the lounge (US airline lounges don't serve anything more than snacks, generally).
 
sjwaste said:
They caught on, but he wasn't doing anything wrong. He refunded the ticket because it was close to expiration - most airline tickets are valid for 1 year following original ticketing. It was a refundable fare that he kept changing, but reissuing the ticket in that way doesn't reset the 1 year clock.

I used to work within walking distance of DCA, and we'd talk about buying refundable tickets so we could get Five Guys on the north pier - never did it though. Now I feel like I should have, and capped it off with free beers at the lounge (US airline lounges don't serve anything more than snacks, generally).
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The walking distance thing is key here. All the major airports I've been to have parking fees that offset/overshadow the value of the free amenities in the lounge.

However, in China, taxis are cheap enough that it's probably feasible (but then again, so is the food.)
 
I don't think this would work here, or at least not at all airports. When I went to Japan via OHare we had access to such a thing too, but the club was inside the airport next to the gates. There's no refund once you check in, and even if there was I wouldn't want to go through airport security every day.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Not all that crazy. I spent about 11 years in Newark Airport once waiting for Continental to get their shit together for a 3 hour flight.
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Good old Continental. Returning from a trip to the west coast I had to change planes in Denver. Lucky me this was the weekend that was scheduled to be the weekend the new airport entered service. For some reason I forget now they ended up changing that at the last minute to the following weekend and diverted my flight to the old Denver airport. I guess the Continental crews didn't get the word or something so we ended up sitting around there for 8 or so hours until they were able to grab a crew from an arriving flight to crew our flight to Dulles.
 
I used the United lounge in Houston for free because of the UA credit card and was NOT impressed at all.
 
Wait, since when was anything free at an airport?
I've been through many major ones and its like $60 for a s**t burger.
Even a bottle of water is like $9.
 
EliteRetard said:
Wait, since when was anything free at an airport?
I've been through many major ones and its like $60 for a s**t burger.
Even a bottle of water is like $9.
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then you've never had a business or 1st class ticket, or didn't utilize the perks

You usually get some free drinks and/or food
 
EliteRetard said:
Wait, since when was anything free at an airport?
I've been through many major ones and its like $60 for a s**t burger.
Even a bottle of water is like $9.
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Most first class services have meals provided, as they should when you are spending likely $5k for an 8 hour flight one way.
 
Guess I just didn't know there were perks or have never figured out where the first class lounge was (or didn't recognize it for what it was).

Been through the one in Texas (Dallas or Houston), Orlando, Denver, LA, Atlanta, Phoenix, Seattle, several others including an international airport in Japan (NRT).

At least I've always had good service on the plane...and no snakes.
 
I went to the two airline lounges at Norita (Japan) from Korea Air and United and they were much better than the United lounge in Houston.

Free beer and wine, plus plenty of foods (mostly snacks but not bad), and juices, wifi, nice comfortable chairs for relaxation, newspapers/magazines, nice clean bathrooms, all for free if you have United or American Express Platinum credit cards.
 
Whenever I've been in the first class lounges they have varied between disappointing to demolished. Nothing that I'd want to visit everyday.
 
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