The frequent fliers who flew too much (2012)

It reminds me of this story: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/02/27/2120422/meet-the-man-w... "When he was seven years old, Max-Hervé George was given a magic ticket by his father. It lets him turn back the clock, to invest with perfect hindsight week after week, steadily accumulating a fortune. The ticket is a life insurance contract and Mr George, now 25, has fought for years in the French courts to preserve its magic. He could be a billionaire by the end of this decade and, by the…

Company sold tickets for the price they wanted. They made the rules. They excluded everything that wasn't allowed in those rules. Time passes and company finds out the deal wasn't so good anymore (or never was in the first place). So they decide to go after those costumers who are using the tickets in unexpected ways, but that weren't forbidden. When the company has an extra profit for your last-minute ticket, or your cancellation (even when very ahead of time…

I really hate the way companies abuse the court system to get out of unfavorable deals. If you sold the ticket and didn't explicitly outline exceptions you can't then get mad just because someone is taking advantage of the very same benefits they paid for. The Vroom guy (great name btw) seems to have particularly gotten screwed because at the time he bought his ticket it wasn't illegal to resell seats. He never violated the contract he signed. It's also…