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Meet the man who has "traveled more miles than any other human being"

2023-06-30 21:58:34Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Meet the man who has "traveled more miles than any other human being"
Tom Stucker on board the United Airlines plane

His favorite seat is 1B, always in First or Business class.

His friends on board are automatically "promoted" to the most comfortable and luxurious part of the plane, not one, but two planes are dedicated to him.

In 2019, he managed to fly on average more than once a day, finishing the last year before the pandemic with 373 takeoffs in 365 days.

It's Tom Stuker, 69, from New Jersey, the man who has "travelled more miles than any other human being".

37.02 million, almost a hundred times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

He, as he himself admits, made "the best investment of his life" in 1990.

In the midst of the financial crisis, some US airlines – including United – sold a ticket for life to get as much liquidity as possible.

Stuker is one of the buyers: he spent $290,000 to be able to fly forever, obviously at risk of losing everything if the airline goes bankrupt.

But United did not fail.

For several years, it has been among those in the best condition, also financially. And Stuker does bingo.

Not only because he has long paid off all the expenses incurred to buy the permit, but also because every time he flies he accumulates miles which in turn give him various benefits, even outside of air travel.

Such as access to the most luxurious hotels.

Once, he received so many gift certificates — including $50,000 from Walmart — that he helped his brother renovate his house.

Until now Stuker has visited over 100 countries and with his wife has done over 120 honeymoons in different places of the planet.

All trips, worth remembering, cost nothing. Before the outbreak of the pandemic, he flew an average of 200 to 250 days a year, then had to slow down due to various travel restrictions.

To those who object to the impact of carbon dioxide emissions on the air, he always responds by saying that "whether the plane flies with or without me, it would have been worse if I had taken a private jet."

He likes everything in flight except deaths.

"Four passengers died on my trips, all of them from heart attacks, and I even knew two of them," he said.

For years, every time Stuker flies, it causes a loss of "several thousand dollars" for United.

The place it occupies – at no cost to it – is a minus in the company's income since it cannot sell to others.

This is also for other customers who have bought "lifetime tickets".

Over time, United's legal departments began trying to refund those tickets by crediting the customer.

Some accepted, others have passed away, but Stuker stood firm: he always refused every offer and even threatened to take the company to court.

And so, unable to get rid of the customer, United began involving him in various initiatives: asking him for his opinion on new in-flight menus, providing him with an airport vehicle to take him from one plane to another when there is very little time between two flights.

It also uses it as the "face" of the company to promote some activities.

/ Corriere della Sera

 


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