June 4, 2006
Scamming the Airlines
- Authorities are investigating whether two Philadelphia police officers got nearly $10,000 worth of free plane tickets by consistently buying refundable tickets on sold-out flights.
Lt. Michael Lista and Officer Joseph Chicano, both of whom have retired in the last two months, deny doing anything wrong. They patrolled Philadelphia International Airport for more than five years each.
The police department and the district attorney's office were investigating whether the officers received free vouchers for flights by volunteering to be "bumped" and cashing in refundable tickets that they never intended to use.
Heh. I like that one. On the web Posted by AlexC at June 4, 2006 9:48 PM
At the risk of being called situational in law-and-order*, it is hard to side with overbooking airlines over some Philly cops.
*You know who you are!
Posted by: jk at June 5, 2006 11:09 AM | What do you think? [1]