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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3374099" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>+1000 on the travel cards. Before retiring I traveled a lot for the company with others. Some BIL of some executive downtown was the "travel agent" and booked all flights for everybody in the company. The person was an idiot. </p><p>We had to go to Detroit, and be there Monday morning. The "travel agent" booked 6 of us to fly on Sunday. Even though American had a direct flight to Detroit, it was cheaper for us to fly to Houston, sit there for 6 hours, change flights, go to St Louis, change flights and then on to Detroit. </p><p>4 of the 6 were hourly and two were salaried. Those of us that were hourly drew double time on Sundays. The other two got nothing to travel. By the time we tallied up our drive time to the airport, (most was an hour to two hours), waited for the required two hours in the airport before boarding and all the layovers plus the return trip that took all day, our trip cost the company twice what American could have flown us on a direct flight and the money came out of our local budget. </p><p>I convinced the Plant Manager to let me book everything and he agreed after seeing the numbers. So I had every ones travel, hotel, and dining expenses on my CC for air miles. Filled out an expense report at the end of the trip and got reimbursed. Did that for years. </p><p>Also American gives you multiple miles per dollar if you dine at selected restaurants, and places like bass pro and cabellas right now are offering 7 miles per dollar spent for online shopping so your right saying the biggest bang for the buck if you travel is the airline card. Cashed our points in several times for different free flights.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3374099, member: 5412"] +1000 on the travel cards. Before retiring I traveled a lot for the company with others. Some BIL of some executive downtown was the "travel agent" and booked all flights for everybody in the company. The person was an idiot. We had to go to Detroit, and be there Monday morning. The "travel agent" booked 6 of us to fly on Sunday. Even though American had a direct flight to Detroit, it was cheaper for us to fly to Houston, sit there for 6 hours, change flights, go to St Louis, change flights and then on to Detroit. 4 of the 6 were hourly and two were salaried. Those of us that were hourly drew double time on Sundays. The other two got nothing to travel. By the time we tallied up our drive time to the airport, (most was an hour to two hours), waited for the required two hours in the airport before boarding and all the layovers plus the return trip that took all day, our trip cost the company twice what American could have flown us on a direct flight and the money came out of our local budget. I convinced the Plant Manager to let me book everything and he agreed after seeing the numbers. So I had every ones travel, hotel, and dining expenses on my CC for air miles. Filled out an expense report at the end of the trip and got reimbursed. Did that for years. Also American gives you multiple miles per dollar if you dine at selected restaurants, and places like bass pro and cabellas right now are offering 7 miles per dollar spent for online shopping so your right saying the biggest bang for the buck if you travel is the airline card. Cashed our points in several times for different free flights. [/QUOTE]
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