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Mark Cuban Says He Gave His $125K Lifetime Pass Of American Airlines To A Friend: “I Have A Plane”

Mark Cuban once purchased a lifetime pass for American Airlines for $125K and has now given it away to a friend as he has his own plane.

Gautam Varier
Dec 19, 2023
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Mark Cuban is an incredibly successful businessman and he sold his first company, MicroSolutions, for $6 million all the way back in 1990. Of that amount, he netted $2 million, and his first big purchase with it was a lifetime pass of American Airlines.

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  • Mark Cuban Is In The Process Of Another Big Sale
  • Mark Cuban’s Net Worth

“I traveled so much I knew the American Airlines phone number,” Cuban said on the Full Send Podcast. “… I called and I said, ‘Do you guys sell lifetime passes?’ And they’re like, ‘Yeah, let us connect you to the air pass department.’ And I’m like, ‘Thank you very much.’ They connected me, they sent me the paperwork and I spent $125K of my $2 million and I got a lifetime pass on American Airlines for me and anybody else to go anywhere we want, First Class for the rest of our lives.”

When asked if he still had it, Cuban revealed he had given it away.

“I gave it to a friend,” Cuban stated. “My friend has it now because I have a plane.”

(starts at 49:57 mark):

That was quite a flex from Cuban at the end there, about just giving away that pass because he has his own plane. He, in fact, owns multiple luxurious private jets now. The first one he purchased was the Gulfstream G550, which cost him $40 million in 1999.

Then after buying the Dallas Mavericks in 2000, Cuban spent $36 million on a Boeing 757-200 to transport his team. The 65-year-old also owned a Boeing 767-200, but it appears that one has now been scrapped. 


Mark Cuban Is In The Process Of Another Big Sale

When Cuban sold MicroSolutions for $6 million, I wonder if he imagined he’d ever make a sale one day that would make that amount seem like some spare change. Well, he is in the process of doing that now, with Cuban selling his majority stake in the Mavericks for a valuation in the range of $3.5 billion to the Adelson family.

He purchased the team for $285 million in 2000 and that is quite the return on investment. While he is selling his majority stake, Cuban will keep some shares in the team and is retaining full control of basketball operations. That’s quite the deal that he managed to get there.

While Cuban has received his fair share of criticism for the way he has run the Mavericks, the franchise’s fortunes really changed once he took over. Under his leadership, they became a perennial contender in the 2000s, after being mired in mediocrity in the 1990s. The Mavericks also made their only two NBA Finals appearances under Cuban, winning it all in 2011.


Mark Cuban’s Net Worth

As per Forbes, Cuban now has a net worth of $6.2 billion. For a man who came from a working-class family, that is quite an achievement. Unlike so many billionaires, Cuban was not born into wealth and can take full credit for getting to where he is today.

Shrewd sales like MicroSolutions and then later Broadcast.com, which was acquired by Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999, have helped him amass the incredible wealth he has today. Cuban found himself at No. 211 on the Forbes 400 for 2023 and at No. 591 on their Billionaire ranking for 2023.

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Gautam Varier is a staff writer and columnist for Fadeaway World from Mumbai, India. He graduated from Symbiosis International University with a Master of Business specializing in Sports Management in 2020. This educational achievement enables Gautam to apply sophisticated analytical techniques to his incisive coverage of basketball, blending business acumen with sports knowledge.Before joining Fadeaway World in 2022, Gautam honed his journalistic skills at Sportskeeda and SportsKPI, where he covered a range of sports topics with an emphasis on basketball. His passion for the sport was ignited after witnessing the high-octane offense of the Steve Nash-led Phoenix Suns. Among the Suns, Shawn Marion stood out to Gautam as an all-time underrated NBA player. Marion’s versatility as a defender and his rebounding prowess, despite being just 6’7”, impressed Gautam immensely. He admired Marion’s finishing ability at the rim and his shooting, despite an unconventional jump shot, believing that Marion’s skill set would have been even more appreciated in today’s NBA.This transformative experience not only deepened his love for basketball but also shaped his approach to sports writing, enabling him to connect with readers through vivid storytelling and insightful analysis.
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