German Airline Offers Free Flight, Beer To Apple Employee Who Lost 4G iPhone

The German airline Lufthansa is offering a free flight to Germany to Gray Powell, the unfortunate Apple employee who lost a prototype iPhone 4G.

Powell lost the prototype iPhone in a German beer garden in Redwood City. It ended up being sold to Gizmodo and became the biggest tech story in recent memory, catapulting Powell into unwelcome notoriety. To make him feel better, the airline is offering to fly Powell to Munich on Business Class, and wants him to check out their new Bavarian Beer Garden Business Lounge.

“We though you could use a break soon,” said the airline’s open letter to Gray, posted to the company’s Twitter account. “And therefore would like to offer you complimentary Business Class transportation to Munich, where you can literally pick up where you last left off.”

The full letter of invitation is below.

[via iClarified and MacDailyNews]

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Seth
Couldn’t they find a better way to promote their new lounge bar or whatever?
Eric
OMG.. that is too funny!
Not to mention the pure marketing genius behind it. They could have spent tons more money than this (the price of the flight) and I seriously doubt they would have been able to get as much publicity out of it than what they’re going to get from doing this. Brilliant.
I bet Mr. Powell never thought he’d be this infamous. LOL..
Seth
I would love to be on the room where this ideia come up lool, if an air travel company can relate to iPhone to use the 4g story to promote themselfs, imagine all that’s going to be coming next..lol
Marky Mark
Ha! “Complementary transportation TO Munich”…no mention as to how he’ll get home. Perhaps as he’s undoubtedly lost his job at Apple, he could sleep in the terminal a la Tom Hanks, because one thing’s for sure: he won’t be able to afford the fare back.
http://twitpic.com/1hf0c2 Eric
Here’s a picture of their Munich Airport Bavarian Beer Garden:
http://twitpic.com/1hf0c2
Looks like a fun place.
Seth
Definitly looks a good place to have some beer, lets hope he doesn’t loose the ticket then..:)
Arun
Of course, everyone wants to know every thing from Powell. So not to be left behind, the Irish are welcoming him to
http://oflahertyspub.com/
but it is in San Jose.
hmmm… bummer.
Lars Pallesen
What? A serious GERMAN company making cheeky humourous PR like that?
Now I think I’ve seen it all.
mike
great, great humor indeed :O)
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Who says the Germans don’t have a sense of humour?
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Love it. Nicely done, Lufthansa. :D
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Good Stuff here. I will have to keep checking back for more information and recommend this site to some of friends and business partners.