Mainline Airways

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Mainline Airways was an alleged fraud run in 2002-2003 by an American college student, whom authorities said pretended to be an airline company offering cheap tickets between Honolulu and Los Angeles, without the ability to actually provide the flights. The student was Luke Thompson of Lower Makefield, Pennsylvania, then a college sophomore at Babson College in Massachusetts.

The program was canceled in June 2003 shortly after Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly obtained a restraining order to temporarily halt ticket sales for charter flights that were to begin in July 2003 and filed a lawsuit. A settlement was reached in 2004, providing refunds to those who had paid money through the web site. The settlement also provides that no party admits wrongdoing or liability.

According to IRS tax records, Mainline Airways posted a substantial loss in 2003 including forfeiting a $20,000 deposit on an aircraft charter contract.

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