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Long story short<\/a>: Chinese man buys a refundable first-class ticket from Eastern China Airlines and uses said ticket to eat at the VIP lounge at the airport for almost an entire year by virtue of rebooking his ticket on every visit, over 300 times and returning later and getting back into the lounge to eat some more.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, this is pretty incredible.\u00a0 Evil, but incredible nonetheless.\u00a0 Of course it had to come out of China, too.\u00a0 Where they\u2019ve got people\u00a0practically living in their knockoff IKEAs<\/a>,\u00a0using rail stations as makeshift commodes<\/a>, and\u00a0some people who have figured out how to live in the sewers<\/a>; why not be where a dining exploit could be found too?\u00a0 And in the end, it\u2019s hard to blame the guy, because nowhere in the ticket\u2019s literature did it say that his first class ticket entitled him to exclusively one access into the airport\u2019s VIP lounge.\u00a0 In the end, he outsmarted the airlines, and they were lucky that he was the only one clever enough to realize the loophole in their system.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s a win on so many levels too.\u00a0 Sure, we don\u2019t really know how much resources went into routine travel to the airport, and sure there\u2019s always the aggravation of having to go through security checkpoints and possibly customs, but there was always a freshly prepared meal waiting for him after he bypassed such nuances.\u00a0 I\u2019m really curious to know the quality of the cuisine at this VIP lounge, if it was really legit gourmet food, or if my expectations are too high being a fat American, and it\u2019s really mediocre stuff.\u00a0 It really doesn\u2019t matter, because essentially it\u2019s free as long as you\u2019re holding a first class ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n The interesting thing about the story is the fact that the airline admit that they technically couldn\u2019t stop him from doing this, because it is something that wasn\u2019t disclosed, but they gloss over whatever tactic they did in order to get him to stop.\u00a0 \u201cConfronted\u201d is a pretty PC way of saying \u201cintimidated\u201d probably, but even in spite of the moral victory of getting the guy to stop mooching off the airport lounge, he still got every cent of his initial ticket purchase back.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOwned,\u201d doesn\u2019t even really begin to describe what this guy did to Eastern China Airlines.\u00a0 Restaurants can try and save face and claim the actual low cost of materials and cooking labor was no big deal, but when the cost of it all is\u00a0something<\/em>\u00a0compared to\u00a0zero,\u00a0<\/em>you\u2019re still a loser.\u00a0 The guy ate over 300 meals at the airport, and didn\u2019t spend a single cent in doing it.\u00a0 Internet hero.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long story short: Chinese man buys a refundable first-class ticket from Eastern China Airlines and uses said ticket to eat at the VIP lounge at the airport for almost an entire year by virtue of rebooking his ticket on every visit, over 300 times and returning later and getting back into the lounge to eat … Continue reading This is the kind of evil genius that could only come from China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,15,52],"class_list":["post-38238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-food","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38240,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38238\/revisions\/38240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}