@richmanparadise: He had the freedom to board almost any flight, whenever he wanted, to nearly any destination in the world without paying again. For years, the sky became like a second home, moving from city to city simply because he could. Back in 1987, American Airlines introduced a lifetime unlimited first class ticket for $250,000. Steven Rothstein bought one and ended up taking over 10,000 flights, often bringing friends along using a companion pass. He was known to fly to London just for lunch or head to Paris for dinner, sometimes purely for the experience of it. After about twenty years, and roughly $21 million in costs to the airline, the ticket was revoked in 2008 after American said it had been abused, bringing one of the most unbelievable travel stories in aviation to a close. Rothstein later explained it was never really about the money. For him, it was about having the freedom to go anywhere he wanted.

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