Pan Am had an allowance system for overseas postings modeled on the Foreign Service benefits for diplomats. Pilots based in Berlin could send their kids to school anywhere in the world and the tuition and other costs would be covered. With pilots and money, what could possibly go wrong?
Pan Am pilot Hank claimed that he had six children in boarding schools in France and Switzerland and collected the school allowances for several years before he crossed paths with the TXL station manager Elke. She did some checking and found out that Hank's kids were actually in public schools in Mobile, Alabama. After the obligatory hearings and appeals under the Railway Labor Act, Hank got fired and took a job with Orion Airlines, a non-sked cargo outfit.
Pan Am had a pilot contract that was amendable and Hank appealed to both ALPA and Dan, the Pan Am VP-Flight Ops who was a fellow Naval Academy graduate in the Class of 1960. When the dust settled on the new pilot contract there was a provision to 'make Hank whole'. He returned to work in time to go to Delta with the A310s and the Pan Am Europe routes.