P.M. BRIEFING : Frequent-Flyer Scam Shot Down
WASHINGTON — A Tulsa, Okla., travel agent convicted on wire-fraud charges for manipulating an airline’s frequent-flyer coupons lost a Supreme Court appeal today.
The court let stand a ruling that travel agent Gayle Schreier and her father, Irwin Schreier, illegally victimized American Airlines’ Frequent Flyer AAdvantage program.
Their appeal had argued that the frequent flyer coupons they collected by substituting a fictitious name for those of real American Airline passengers were not the airline’s property but that of its passengers. No passengers complained.
Schreier, through her job, had access to American’s computer reservation system, which stores passengers’ names and flight information.
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