Not So-High Flying
I wrote the other day about the mysterious airline Mainline Airways, and how a Hawaii judge barred the airline's website from selling anymore cheap-o $89 Los Angeles-to-Honolulu flights because they hadn't gotten the necessary approval-- such as even registering themselves with the FAA! (It also didn't have other necessary items to operate like, oh, planes!)
Well, here's more. Surprise. It sounded like a scam, and sure enough, the AP reports that the airline was nothing more than a Web site created by an 18-year-old freshman at Babson College: "Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly won a temporary restraining order Wednesday that bars Luke Thompson, of Yardley, Pa., from using any bank accounts associated with his business, Mainline Airways, for any reason other than to provide refunds to customers."
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