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Cheater Travel: Who Paid Your Seatmate To Be Here?

April 1, 2008 at 2:15 PM | 0 Comments

If the person next to you looks excited to be in the air during a commuter flight, he could be a plant! UK discount carrier Flybe was facing a $550,000 bill from Norwich International Airport for not making passenger quotas, so they hired 172 people to pose as passengers on their Dublin-Norwich runs.

At less than $80 a head, this subterfuge saved the airline about $545,000--but now Norwich officials have found out, and they're angry.

We'd love to interview the evil genius at Flybe who came up with this plan: We'll be suspicious of our fellow passengers forevermore.

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· Airline Hires Temps to Fill Plane [Reuters, via Yahoo]
· Flybe: A Budget Airline with Its Own Credit Card [Jaunted]

[Photo: kpmarek]