management consultant working in the auto industry. in 1990, united airlines was offering customers a lifetime flying pass for unlimited travel. stuker jumped at the chance to invest in a companion pass. that means that for the then-hefty price of $510,000 he could fly with a partner first class on any future united airlines flight. he is 69. he traveled more than 23 million miles. for tom, there is no such thing as a once-in-a-lifetime type of trip. he once brought a friend who loves chinese friend to hong kong for a meal and flew to australia for a three-hour 70th birthday. he and his wife have taken 100 honeymoons. he has been racking up airline points and miles along the way, cashing in on high-end hotel suites, gift cards, cruises and gourmet meals. he once cashed $50,000 worth of walmart gift cards in a single day.
he is 69. he s traveled more than 23 million miles. for tom, there is no such thing as a once-in-a-lifetime type of trip. he once brought a friend who loves chinese friend to hong kong for a meal and flew to australia for a three-hour 70th birthday party. he and his wife have taken 100 honeymoons. he isn t just leaving with memories. he has been racking up airline points and miles along the way, cashing in on high-end hotel suites, gift cards, cruises and gourmet meals. he once cashed $50,000 worth of walmart gift cards in a single day. he even earned a guest appearance on a seinfeld episode on united s dime. with perks like that it s no surprise the airline no longer offers such an extravagant opportunity, yet the company adores him. the airline put his name on two of its airplanes. tom stuker joins me now. thank you for being here. three quick questions at the outset. what s the best seat on the plane? my favorite seat is the
just give me back my stroller, please. hey, bud, you do that to me and i ll knock you flat. you stay out of this. honey. tony. you get the hell out of this plane. come on. bring it on. i ll knock you out. tony. tony, sit down. you don t know what the story is i don t care what the story is, you almost hurt a baby. you keep looking at me and it shows me it s what you did to that lady. keep it quiet. i can see exactly what you did. maybe you ll get videotaped, too, and get all over the news. that flight attendant by the way has been suspended. with us from miami brian kelly who is the founder of the points guy.com. you travel the world full-time using airline points.
at lof people don t travel a lot of for business. for somebody who doesn t travel a whole lot but wants to do that big international trip, is this something to look at t? if you are only traveling on paid tickets, alaska is going to give you more miles for the flights. you are building up more miles quickly, which is great. and because they have so many different partners u one of the other things for the occasional traveller is the for a good number of awards alaska has for international travel, they don t charge fuel surcharges. which is one of the ways the big carriers get some of anyway money back for you. building up alaska miles can be a great way to get overseas i think it is a great option more the occasional traveler. lots of people talk about travel now. thank you. thanks molly. good muse when it comes airline points. you don t have to worry about your points. exactly. don t have to this i about it when heading for the plane. merry christmas and of course
instances where there was a pilot committing suicide with by murder. how complicated is it to find motive and find the bits of evidence especially if they have not found the second black box. it is very difficult, andrea because unlike the technical aspects where you have a piece of hardware that fails or something to that effect trying to get into the psyche of one or both pilots is difficult especially if you don t have those people to ask questions of, as in this case. when we did silk air, one of the things we found from the mechanical and technical aspects, the airplane under a variety of mechanical scenarios wouldn t be able to come out of the sky on the radar points that we had had. we had to try and find a way for the airplane to fly those airline points. we found it was manually capable. and that s what led us to