New Jersey man flies 23m miles with lifetime United pass ‘like a sultan’

In 2019 alone, Tom Stuker flew 1.46m miles, which would have cost him $2.44m had he not used his lifetime pass. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

A US man who bought a lifetime pass from United Airlines three decades ago has “lived like a sultan” ever since, according to a report, flying multiples of miles more than the Apollo 11 spacecraft in the process.

Tom Stuker, from New Jersey, paid $290,000 for the pass in 1990, according to the Washington Post, a decision he said is the “best investment of my life”.