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A 35-year-old Florida man booked more than 120 free flights by posing as a flight attendant

man looking out window on plane (Credit: Getty Images—Alexander Spatari)
  • A Florida man who used to be a flight attendant posed as one to book free flights through several airlines. On June 5, a federal jury convicted Tiron Alexander of wire fraud and entering a secure area of an airport by false pretenses. Alexander had about 30 different badge numbers and dates of hire he used to book the free flights.

One man was seemingly so fed up with the cost of airline tickets he developed a scheme to get them for free. On June 5, a federal jury convicted Tiron Alexander, 35, of wire fraud and entering a secure area of an airport by false pretenses, according to an announcement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. 

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