I dealt with this as a former road warrior. I did what Floyd suggested, made nice with my “gal” who would then make sure for the most part I got the airline, seats and hotels I preferred. They had a profile for everyone that had all your preferences in it, and I can’t complain as they did a good job for the most part.
Understand that you might be fighting a losing battle, as with most companies this approach it two-fold: 1.) The obvious, to keep travel costs to a minimum. 2.) By utilizing particular carriers who give the company kick-backs for the bookings on their flights. To give you and idea of how messed up #2 can be, I had to go to New Zealand one time. NZ and AUS flights are very expensive because both countries control the routes in and out. A typical business class airfare to Auckland was $4k at the time. I had a discount coupon I had earned on Northwest for a $2k business class flight I was willing to use. Nope. We had to use United ($4k flight) because that was our preferred carrier, that is, they kicked money back to the Travel Dept. every year for the bookings they made with them. BS. When I asked how much of the kickbacks went against my travel budget, I was told “None”. It all went back to corporate. On a related note, they also tried to make us use our mileage points for corporate travel, but that ended poorly. If you used points to book a business flight they would reimburse you the cheapest fare on that route. And oh yeah - it was paid out as income, so you got taxed on it, too. I don’t know anyone who ever did this -D > On Feb 26, 2021, at 6:02 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I’m not really sure what they think they are saving by paying these people > to book it. We were told that they would continue to book our preferred > airlines and hotels. They lied. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 25, 2021, at 10:29 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> If the company is paying some folks to book the flights for you, they >> should make the frequent flier account (s) for you. Or shit can them and you >> can book your own, and they can give you a raise for suggesting that. >> >> >> Rick >> >> From: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Sent: February 25, 2021 10:17 PM >> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Cc: ka...@striplin.net >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Going to ABQ >> >> It does, but you have to have the number added to your frequent flier >> account. I don’t have one with southwest and really have no intention of >> setting one up. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
