The owner of the iPhone “winded up” bonus miles for himself. The method is rather clumsy.

During an international flight, a passenger forgot her iPhone on the plane, and he “wound up” bonus miles for his mistress. This was told in the Phone Arena.

According to the source, the Rugby family was flying from Sydney to Auckland on Qantas. Some time after the successful landing, the wife found that her smartphone was not with her. The head of the family tracked his wife’s device using Locator and found that her iPhone was on its way to Sydney. An Australian went to the airline’s support forum and wrote that they forgot their smartphone on the plane.

However, the answer to his message did not arrive immediately – during this time, the iPhone flew from Sydney to Honolulu, returned back, visited Auckland and flew back to Sydney. All this time, the family watched the smartphone until its battery ran out.

Rugby was worried that the iPhone could catch fire on board – in 2016, a similar incident occurred with the iPhone 6, stuck between the seats of the same Qantas plane. Then the smartphone was lost by one of the passengers, and the next one came in his place, tried to move his seat and broke the battery of the device. It caught fire, fortunately before takeoff, and the onboard crew extinguished it. After that incident, Qantas changed the design of the seats in their aircraft.

The story of the Australians ended well. They were contacted by Qantas employees who said they would leave their iPhone at the airport lost and found. Mr. Rugby took away the device, which also “wound” bonus miles to his account.