Pan Am legal department joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 14 minutes later[^][v]#1,064,215
It is not even remotely legal to borrow a passenger's credit card to pay our fuel bill, and any member of staff 'accepting' such an offer from a delusional passenger will be fired on the spot, because this is simply and obviously not how major airlines and international airports operate.
Howard Hughes joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 5 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,064,216
My close personal friend Barry Goldwater has my permission to use and refuel the spruce goose for all international secret agent missions he is currently working on.
Mr. Augustine David joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 6 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,064,218
@1,064,215 (Pan Am legal department)
I love the idea of a 747 worth of kerosene being paid for with a credit card lol
Anonymous B replied with this 6 years ago, 10 minutes later, 36 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,064,222
> I love the idea of a 747 worth of kerosene being paid for with a credit card lol
And I love the idea that rather than contact literally any member of the airline's ground staff, as is protocol for ANY issue regarding the condition and status of an aircraft, the pilot of a 747 borrowed a passenger's credit card to pay the plane's fuel bill because his own was maxed out.
I said elsewhere, this one is by far my favorite Syntax tall tale (and dear lord there have been a lot).
TWA legal department joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 9 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,064,228
Hughes, you traitor. What are you doing in bed with Pan Am?
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 25 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,064,245
I bet Flake anon believes every word of it.
Howard Hughes (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 17 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,064,251
No need for money, just hand me a check when I disembark. That's totally how major airlines recompense passengers who spontaneously foot a 747's $11,000 transatlantic fuel bill.
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Howard Hughes (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 48 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,064,265
Barry Goldwater joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 14 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,064,273
Rest assured friends, with a quick swipe of my credit card and a nudge and wink from the captain, Malaysian Flight 370 has been refueled and is ready to go!
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,064,275
Mr.Goldstein paid to have Pan Am flight 103 refuled. Wake up, sheeple!
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,064,277
How can anyone not like that story? It's awesome.
Pan Am PR department replied with this 6 years ago, 30 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,064,292
Could everybody please keep this incident quiet? If the media ever found out that a 747 pilot had to borrow a passenger's credit card to pay our fuel bill as we were waiting on the tarmac for takeoff (because major airlines and international airports operate a pay-as-you-go deal and our pilots and crew often forget to check they have fuel before taxiing out), it would be the biggest PR catastrophe in aviation history. It would probably make the front pages of every newspaper and be archived on the internet for anyone to quickly look up.
That's why we have a set of legally-binding protocols to make sure that such an incident is literally an impossibility.
Anonymous I replied with this 6 years ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,064,293
Legend has it that Mr.Goldstein also paid to have Amelia Earhart's plane refuled before she disappeared.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 5 seconds later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,064,294