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Life-Long American Airline Tickets

Dozens of people have purchased tickets earning them first class travel for life on American Airlines.

Naturally, a first class pass for eternity is a pretty sweet thing. You can fly anywhere, any time for any reason- all in first class.

These passes, when they were available, were priced more than $350,000 and allowed the owner to have a free +1.

Some of the men who still have their pass have surpassed 30 million miles in flight. But unfortunately, American Airlines isn't too happy with the 66 people being..."free" with this.

These people have been costing AA millions of dollars, and as you may know, that won't let the airlines be too easy.

Trying to cut down the passes the owners of them have, AA started investigating them to try and catch them doing something bad.

So as it turns out, many of the owners were taken to court or had their passes revoked for some fairly bogus claims of "unlawful behavior."

The behavior in question were things like reserving seats but not taking the flight, or using a +1 on a stranger.

Many of these cases are still ongoing, as this only broke in May 2012, but it's devastating to see AA covering its mistakes in such an ugly way.