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Lufthansa slaps airport lounge lizard with bill for €2,000
A German man has been ordered to pay Lufthansa €1980 – the equivalent of $2,700 – for repeatedly visiting Lufthansa's business lounge in Munich without actually flying anywhere. The un-named lounge lizard bought a flexible business class ticket for €745 to fly with Lufthansa from Munich to Zurich, but never took the one hour flight. (www.ausbt.com.au) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
A WONDER he survived this food ...
Wouldn't an annual membership have cost less than the price of a fully refundable ticket?
Shouldn't it bother someone that this guy made and cancelled over thirty reservations within a year? Granted TSA isn't present at the Munich airport, but...really?
I love it that people on here actually ask what he did wrong... Just a great example of how society in general has lost it's moral compass. There's always some smart-ass defending crappy behavior now.
The fact is, a judge in a court of law determined he was at fault. So all the debating, rationalizing, obfuscating and denials here mean nothing. Case is closed and the verdict is in.
Now all you puzzled people who don't get it need to examine your own perspectives and try to figure out what is wrong with them. I doubt you'd listen to me tell you, and most of you probably don't even care what any court has to say anyway, so I don't hold my breath that greedy selfish behavior will end anytime soon. That's why it takes a governmental system to hit some people beside the head with a brick to get their attention.
Jeeez!
The fact is, a judge in a court of law determined he was at fault. So all the debating, rationalizing, obfuscating and denials here mean nothing. Case is closed and the verdict is in.
Now all you puzzled people who don't get it need to examine your own perspectives and try to figure out what is wrong with them. I doubt you'd listen to me tell you, and most of you probably don't even care what any court has to say anyway, so I don't hold my breath that greedy selfish behavior will end anytime soon. That's why it takes a governmental system to hit some people beside the head with a brick to get their attention.
Jeeez!
But now you're assuming that a government mandate is the standard for moral right and wrong which clearly is not the case. Sure this guy abused the system but is the court's intervention really the answer to poor company policy? Lufthansa should have predicted such abuse.
Sounds like how the plaintiff's attorney would put it. It may be unamerican, but then, this occurred in Deutschland.
You are joking about that moral compass, right? This is a loophole in the airline rules. What the guy did was silly (and likely not very economical), but not against the rules. If the airline argued that tickets are sold for people who "have intention of traveling", they should put such wording in ticket rules. I have not seen that in any LH ticket rules so far. So it was a poor judge decision. I cannot condone what the guy did, but I hope he appeals and wins for the sake of abiding by rules. Dura lex sed lex. And the irony is - this law was compiled by LH themselves.