PeterRS Posted August 11 Posted August 11 Remember the movie "Catch Me If You Can" and the part where the Leonardo Di Caprio character becomes a Pan Am pilot? Now someone else has found ways to get free flights. Over six years he falsely posed as a flight attendant on various carriers to get free flights on several others. In all he racked up over 120 free flights. To obtain such flights, the applicant has to access a special airline website and then provide the name of his employer, date of hire and airline badge number. During his free flight sprees, 35-year old Tyron Alexander claimed to work for seven different airlines and had 30 different badges. In the USA, to become a flight attendant and obtain an airport security badge you have to go through a criminal background check, provide ten years of employment information, dates of hire and a fingerprint sample which is sent to the FBI. Yet even after 9/11, many American airports do not bother about the Airport Security bagdes (e.g. LAX) and rely on staff passing through the air crew security lanes having their airline badges. Alexander was convicted in a Florida Court in early June and is due to be sentenced on August 25 in Florida. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/06/11/fraud-flight-attendant-free-flights/84151108007/ Ruthrieston 1 Quote
vinapu Posted August 12 Posted August 12 so what exactly he did wrong landing himself in the courts ? He should be awarded prize for exposing weak spot in procedures splinter1949, PeterRS and unicorn 3 Quote
