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Johnny Jet Profile for David Phillips,
a.k.a, "The Pudding Guy"
 From
the start, I guess I’ve had great timing when it comes to good
deals. I was born on December 31, 1964--just in time to save
my parents several hundred dollars on their taxes.
I had a Tom Sawyer-like childhood growing up
in Fresno, California. Irrigation canals were my Mississippi.
I used to spend summers in the 115-degree sun swimming in the
filthy water, floating downstream on innertubes, and picking berries
along the way.
I went to college at the University of California, Davis because
it seemed like a nice place to study canal hydraulics and such.
After I graduated, I went to work as an environmental engineer
for a large consulting firm. I caught the travel bug while visiting
hazardous waste sites across the country. You know, this country
really has some spectacular hazardous waste sites. (Someday
I hope to put together a travel guide.) Plus, I had lots of fun
along the way. I especially enjoyed the fried foods of Mississippi
and the all-night sunlight of Alaska in July.
I married my high-school girlfriend Cindy in 1988, and our first
daughter Katie was born exactly five years later. Katie didn’t
slow us down much. We made two trips to Europe before Katie was
even two. Now the whole family was hooked on visiting distant
places.
Right before our second daughter Emma was born in 1994, I began
working as a civil engineer for UC Davis. As a manager for several
campus utility systems, I’ve learned a whole lot about things
like sewage.
My life got a whole lot more interesting--relative
to managing sewage--when I starting working with chocolate pudding
in 1999. Interesting because I figured out how to turn chocolate
pudding into 1.25 million frequent flyer miles. I followed this
up by earning another million miles flying around Latin America.
My mileage success stories have been covered by hundreds of television
and radio stations and countless other publications around the
world. Here’s one of my favorites (auto-translated from the German
publication "Focus Magazin"):
The coronation of the discount illusionist comes as expected from
the USA. David Phillips used two spectacular publicity campaigns
and collected in the past months a full 2.25 million frequent flyer
miles. The 35-aged engineer from California and his Mrs. Cindy will
probably never pay again in life with cash for flights or hotels.
The first 1.25 million protected itself with the publicity campaign
of a large food manufacturer. For months he milehunted supermarkets
in the environment of Sacramento, and at the end covered up with
a stately 12,150 plastic cups of Schokopudding. For ten cups was
1,000 free miles. The pudding miracle. For collecting the bonus
tank, the internal message cost 3,000 dollars, less a 800-dollar
rueckerstattung of the tax office. Because Phillips bequeathed the
bucket capacity to social mechanisms, much for the relief of his
family which had to watch helplessly how in their two-story house
and garage the pallets stacked themselves. But Phillips' miles in
the value of $25,000 had gescheffelt.
Thus not enough: In February Phillips applied to Latin America,
in order to take one further million bonus miles. The program
of 13 flights, five days rented car, and three hotels required
by the airlines reeled the bonus professional loosely on two weekends
for a 2,500 dollar cost, the tour over Guatemala, Ecuador, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and El Salvador. Living
correctly with his stout mile account, Phillips as a pensioner
will however only know. At the moment the time is missing: The
university employee has only schlappe 18 days vacation in the
year.
Contact e-mail: puddingguy@johnnyjet.com
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