November 23, 2019 
Frequent flier Rajan Mahbubani thought he had discovered the ultimate hack for getting preferential treatment at airports. Instead it got him arrested.
In a case that’s been compared to the Leonardo DiCaprio conman movie “Catch Me If You Can,” the 48-year-old allegedly donned the uniform of a Lufthansa pilot in order to fool airport workers into letting him bypass security lines and get seat upgrades.
It apparently worked too, right up until the point he was caught at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday evening.
Mahbubani was dressed in a pilot’s uniform when arrested at the departure gate as he was about to board an AirAsia flight from Delhi to Kolkata, police said.
Sanjay Bhatia, the airport’s deputy commissioner of police, told CNN that a Lufthansa employee had alerted airport security that a “suspected passenger was impersonating a captain of Lufthansa airline.”
This came after AirAsia had called Lufthansa to verify his identity.
Mahbubani, who is from New Delhi, was detained and handed over to Delhi Police. He was found carrying a fake Lufthansa pilot ID that he used to gain privileges at airports.
“After his arrest, Mahbubani told us he used to shoot YouTube and TikTok videos on aviation and had obtained the Lufthansa fake ID card in Thailand,” Bhatia said.
– CNN
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