Fraud involving frequent flyer points is incredibly common, and all too often, people don’t get caught, and don’t face punishment. Well, here’s the other extreme (thanks to View from the Wing for flagging this)…
Long story short, around 12PM Montreal time, a national security protocol was triggered, over something that happened on another flight. A traveler had attempted to board another Air Canada flight, only to have an alert come up in the system, indicating that this person was already onboard another Air Canada flight (the above transatlantic one).
As you might have guessed, something didn’t add up here. It was determined that the person trying to board was using their real identity, meaning that the person on the transatlantic flight must’ve been someone else. As it turns out, the passenger on the flight had stolen not only the identity, but also the Aeroplan points, of the other traveler.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
