That's good thinking, the folks I've worked with were all pretty nice. It also
worked really well to present them with the trip I wanted. I'd send emails like
"I need to go to LA on the 23rd. I see that American has a flight out of
Hartford at 6am and a return on the 28th leaving LAX at 7am." then they'd just
book the flights I'd already picked out. If I had a hotel I liked they'd book
that or sometimes I would say "Can you find me a nice independent hotel in the
area" which is how we found the Hotel Triton in San Francisco (between the
Mission and Chinatown, great hotel).
-Curt
On Thursday, February 25, 2021, 9:41:38 PM EST, Buggered Benzmail via
Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Good plan.
Also get to know these people, chat them up. I worked for a company that had an
in-house travel agent group, I’d go in there and got to know this one girl
pretty well. She’d say oh bring me something from wherever kinda joking. So I’d
buy some little souvenir or something and bring it to her, a mug or glass or
something like that. I got great help, anything I wanted.
--FT
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> On Feb 25, 2021, at 9:28 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Have to fly out to Albuquerque next month for a week. In the past for these
> sorts of trips we booked our own travel thru the companies travel site.
> Since covid and a recent acquisition of another company, they have now
> decided to use a travel team to book our travel for these trips. The company
> they acquired had couple of office workers (aka travel team) booking travel
> for that company. They now use them to book ours. They claim the reason was
> to save us time. It takes all of 5-10 minutes to book. Most of us are very
> particular about our travel arrangements and if we are having to spend a week
> away from home at a time, we should at least get some mileage and status out
> of it. These office workers booking this apparently have no idea what it is
> like being on the road and simply book whatever is the cheapest flight. My
> preferred airline is American on which I am platinum status, which means I
> get free checked backs, most of the time upgrades to 1st class etc. On this
> trip they just booked for me, they put me on Southwest, probably because it
> came in about $20 cheaper. WTF? I also have TSA precheck which is tied into
> my AA account. So flying on SW I have none of these benefits. One of my co
> workers will also be going out there and they have him on AA leaving Jackson
> MS at 6am and arriving at 10am. Hotel check in is not until 3, so what is he
> supposed to do all day? Sit at the airport? I am sure some people like
> Southwest and maybe they are great, but not for me.
>
> Anyway, the point of this rant is to say I will be in ABQ for a week and
> maybe I should look for something to drive home and blow off the crappy
> southwest cattle car flight back home.
>
>
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