He sought his missing wallet so far as the dough flies.
In a mile-high-mishap for the ages, a Missouri man reportedly watched his wallet travel to 35 different cities after he left it behind on an American Airlines flight. A post detailing his misplaced money pouch’s alleged cross-country jaunt is currently going viral on Twitter.
“The crazy part is that I even have called and contacted American Airlines they usually say they’ll’t find my wallet,” John Lewis, 46, exclaimed within the post.
The in-flight fiasco occurred on Jan. 24 after the Ferguson native landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and realized he didn’t have his wallet when he went to rent a automobile. He said he subsequently “called and contacted American Airlines,” but they couldn’t locate the carrier of his lost card.
He found their answer strange as he’d watched the wallet fly to multiple locations using Apple’s Airtag, a disc-like device that helps people keep tabs on personal items via the Find My app. “I’m in a position to trace my wallet and it’s still on the plane and it has gone to over 35 cities since Tuesday,” Lewis stated.
An accompanying screenshot showed an Airtag of certainly one of the wallet’s layovers in Portland, Oregon.
American Airlines subsequently told Lewis that they hadn’t found any wallets despite thoroughly cleansing the plane — which Lewis further found suspect. “But how can they thoroughly clean the plane if the wallet remains to be on the plane?” protested the passenger, who implored AA to “step up” because he’s a “platinum member.”
“Come on now … help your boy out. I only fly with you and also you treat me such as you don’t even know me,” he wrote.
And while acknowledging it was his fault for losing the wallet, Lewis claimed he’d grow to be distracted while attempting to catch a connecting flight since the prior one was delayed.
In a follow-up post several days later, the Missourian claimed that the airline had found the Airtag but not his wallet. This led him to deduce that a crewmember had yoinked it. “Which means the cleansing crew says they cleaned up so well, any individual from the cleansing crew took the wallet and just left the AirTag,” theorized Lewis.
He found the scenario particularly suspicious because the staff claimed they found it buried under the seat — an area too small for his wallet to suit, Lewis insisted.
His suspicions were confirmed after certainly one of his bank cards was charged. “It was confirmed that an individual cleansing [the plane] took the wallet and left the AirTag on the plane because Sunday certainly one of my bank cards was utilized in Dallas which is where I got off of the plane,” he told the Post. “The following flight for that plane went to Oklahoma so the cardboard wouldn’t have stayed in Dallas if it was a passenger on the following flight.”
“American has not been involved with me since finding the tag,” added the frustrated flyer, who says he’s within the strategy of canceling his cards.
As of yet, the wallet has not been recovered.
Fortunately, Lewis has been in a position to see some humor within the grueling ordeal.
“The crazier part is I’m watching my wallet accumulate all these miles,” he wrote within the post. “Are they [American Airlines] gonna apply this to my account and do I get to maintain all of the miles that my wallet is accumulating.”
