In 1987, amidst a lucrative year as a Bear Stearns stockbroker, my father became one of only a few dozen people on earth to purchase an unlimited, lifetime AAirpass. A quarter of a million dollars gave him access to fly first class anywhere in the world on American for the rest of his life. He flew so much it paid for itself. Often he’d leave in the morning for a business trip, fly back, and I hadn’t even known he’d left. Other times, I remember calling his office to find out what country he was in. He (and our whole family) was featured on NBC’s Today Show in 2003, and then on MSNBC in 2006. For 20 years, he was one of American’s top fliers, accumulating more than 30 million miles, which he acquired every time he flew, even with the AAirpass
if an airplane goes 500 miles an hour and he went 30 million miles that means he spent over 60,000 hours of his life on an airplane which is 6.8 years.
Is it worth it to spend 6 years of your life to see the world? That's a lot of time spent traveling but i guess it was first class, but you can't even smoke on a plane anymore so is it really that fancy?
