This was genius until it wasn't.
35-year-old Tiron Alexander posed as a flight attendant for four separate airlines in order to receive free flight rewards only available for pilots and flight attendants.
Here's Tiron:
Get this: Between 2018 and 2024, Tiron booked a whopping 120 free flights! In his eyes, that really had been the life hack of all life hacks.
But now he'll likely be going to prison.
On June 5, a federal jury convicted Tiron Alexander, 35, of wire fraud and entering into a secure area of an airport by false pretenses.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, from 2018 to 2024, Alexander booked free flights on an airline carrier's website that were only available to pilots and flight attendants. In total, Alexander flew on 34 flights with the airline carrier without paying for any of them by posing as a flight attendant who worked for other airlines. Over the 34 flights, Alexander claimed through the airline carrier's website application process — a process that required an applicant to select whether they were a pilot or flight attendant and provide their employer, date of hire, and badge number information — that he worked for seven different airlines and had approximately 30 different badge numbers and dates of hire. The evidence at trial also showed that Alexander posed as a flight attendant on three other airline carriers. Ultimately, Alexander booked more than 120 free flights by falsely claiming to be a flight attendant.
Reports say Tiron has worked for an airline since 2015, just not as a flight attendant or pilot. His sentencing is scheduled for August 25.
Tiron Alexander was living the criminal dream, and now he'll be living the criminal nightmare.
According to the indictment, the maximum sentence for wire fraud is 20 years in prison, and 10 years for entering the secure airport areas under false pretenses. Both charges carry a maximum of three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
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