Tom Stuker's mileage has seen him take more than 12,000 flights, stay in lavish hotel suites and even appear on a sitcom episode.
Travel tips abound online about how to rack up frequent flyer miles to score business-class flights and other perks.
His accumulated miles have seen him travel all over the world, stay in lavish hotel suites and even appear on an episode of the US sitcom Seinfeld.Simple – he bought a lifetime pass by United Airlines for US$290,000 in 1990, and hasn't looked back since. Aviation news website Simple Flying said Stuker spent between 200 and 250 days a year in the air before COVID-19 halted air travel around the world.United Airlines has put his name on two planes and let him help design the menu at their premium Polaris clubs. It even has a Mercedes ready on the tarmac to ferry him to his next gate when he has to make a quick connection.
And when he reached the 20-million-mile mark in 2019, United celebrated the occasion with him onboard, offering champagne to his fellow passengers.
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