We’ve all been there before, right? You have a couple cocktails in you which leads to scrolling through Amazon for things you don’t necessarily need but still purchase them anyway?
During the pandemic there was hardly anything to do but stay indoors, drink, and impulse shop.
The current Mavs minority owner Mark Cuban recently admitted to being guilty of this act, though his impulse purchase looks very different from any of ours.
Cuban admitted to Shannon Sharpe on his Club Shay Shay podcast that he once purchased a lifetime pass for American Airlines for the grand total of $125,000.
Cuban revealed this was after he recently sold his software startup MicroSolutions for $6 billion.
While his friends were pestering him one evening about what he was going to do with his new fortunate, Cuban explained that he wasn’t into cars or houses, but since he flew a lot for work, he wondered if any airline offered a lifetime pass.
Cuban told Sharpe he drunkenly called American Airlines and inquired about a lifetime pass. “I got all that information, hungover as hell, and I signed up. Initially, it was $125,000 and then I upgraded it. I forget how much I paid, but it gave me almost unlimited miles for me and somebody else for the rest of my life,” he said.
Per the NY Post, Cuban bought the AAirpass, which launched in the early 1980s and gave flyers unlimited first-class travel for the rest of their lives. At the time, the price for the pass was based on the buyer’s age at the time of purchase.
Cuban transferred the pass to his father, and upon his death gave it to a friend. Unfortunately, American Airlines no longer offers an AAirpass.
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