Man Who Got 120 Free Flights by Posing as Flight Attendant Found Guilty of Fraud: Authorities

A Florida man who pretended to be a flight attendant to fly free 120 times has been found guilty of fraud.

On Tuesday, June 10, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a release that a federal jury had found 35-year-old Tiron Alexander guilty of “wire fraud and entering into a secure area of an airport by false pretenses.” 

“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,” the release added.

“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,” officials said about Alexander’s use of a flight attendants’ website to book free flights between 2018 to 2024.

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Alexander “posed as a flight attendant on three other airline carriers,” resulting in him scheduling over 120 free flights “by falsely claiming to be a flight attendant,” the release added.

Alexander was found guilty on June 5 and is set to be sentenced on August 25 by U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Becerra.

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“U.S. Attorney Hayden P. O’Byrne for the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge Antonio L. Pittman of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Atlanta Field Office, made the announcement,” the release continued. “TSA investigated the case.”

The case is being prosecuted by the Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael C. Shepherd, Zachary A. Keller, and Andres E. Chinchilla.

According to CNN, Alexander could be in prison for up to 20 years for wire fraud charges, as well as 10 years for entering into a secure area of an airport by false pretenses.