For nearly three weeks, for 18 days from Aug 21 until last Wednesday, Raejali Buntut remained in transit by using 31 forged mobile boarding passes to enter various lounges in the three terminals.
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Tom Hanks did it in the film, The Terminal, and until recently, a passenger got away with living in an airport for almost three weeks.
FilepicRaejali Buntut, 33, had overslept and missed his flight to Kuala Lumpur on August 21 but it was what he did next that has made him and his misadventure headline news worldwide.
In that time he managed to forge 31 boarding passes, moving between lounges, until suspicions were eventually aroused.
Raejali Buntut lived a luxury life during the weeks he spent inside the terminal of the airport in Southeast Asia by doctoring boarding passes on his personal computer to get access to showers and restaurants inside the building.
He allegedly manipulated boarding passes by re-touching them with fake flight details and downloaded images of the airline companies. While he could’ve been given a four-year sentence for his crimes, he was just awarded a verdict of two weeks in jail after pleading guilty to three out of 31 charges of forgery.
He inserted his name, a false flight number and a false destination on the passes, before sending them to his phone.
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Spending up to 24 hours at a time in specific lounges, Raejali was only caught when a staff member became suspicious.
