{"id":860,"date":"2010-04-26T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/lufthansa-airlines-offers-forgetful-apple-engineer-free-trip-to-germany\/"},"modified":"2010-04-26T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:14:00","slug":"lufthansa-airlines-offers-forgetful-apple-engineer-free-trip-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/lufthansa-airlines-offers-forgetful-apple-engineer-free-trip-to-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa Airlines Offers Forgetful Apple Engineer Free Trip To Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nGray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost the prototype of the iPhone 4G in a Redwood, California beer garden, is now being offered a free tip to drink even more beer in Munich, Germany by Lufthansa Airlines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe forgetful Powell said that he placed the iPhone on a stool at a bar and walked off leaving it behind. Some cynics at first thought that it was just an Apple publicity stunt, but Powell swears that the snafu is legit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLufthansa sent a letter (scroll down to read it) to Mr. Powell offering him business-class seats to Munich, Germany and the opportunity to down some brew at the airline&#39;s new <span>Bavarian Beer Garden Business Lounge.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo what ever happened to the lost iPhone? The person that came across it attempted to contact Apple, but was unable to get a response. So they then decided to shop it around to some media outlets, with tech website Gizmodo paying $5,000 for the phone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf Powell were to accept the deal, it would be a great public relations move by the German carrier, especially since they asked him to respond to the offer via Twitter.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/4\/letter.jpg\" alt=\"Lufthansa letter sent to Apple engineer Gary Powell\" title=\"Lufthansa letter sent to Apple engineer Gary Powell\" width=\"465\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source and image of letter: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5522045\/apple-iphone-misplacer-offered-free-trip-to-germany\" target=\"_blank\"> Gawker <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who lost the prototype of the iPhone 4G in a Redwood, California beer garden, is now being offered a free tip to drink even more beer in Munich, Germany by Lufthansa Airlines. &nbsp; The forgetful Powell said that he placed the iPhone on a stool at a bar and walked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}