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pezzy669 wrote:But it skirted my company rules of no paid checked bags unless you are staying 2+ nights
IPFreely wrote:pezzy669 wrote:But it skirted my company rules of no paid checked bags unless you are staying 2+ nights
This sounds like a bad employer for employees who have to travel. Really bad.
If any employer I've worked for had such micro-managing penny pinching policies, most employees I know would have quit or at least refused to travel.
IPFreely wrote:pezzy669 wrote:But it skirted my company rules of no paid checked bags unless you are staying 2+ nights
This sounds like a bad employer for employees who have to travel. Really bad.
If any employer I've worked for had such micro-managing penny pinching policies, most employees I know would have quit or at least refused to travel.
Frenchify wrote:Delta's basic economy isn't bad for a number of routes. I routinely fly routes with regional jet service, so it's window or aisle anyway, and sometimes, not having to be dead set on looking out and seeing the scenery can save $70 to $100. Twice now, this year, because of weather and other delays, my flights wound up getting cancelled, and each time, Delta was right on the ball with rebooking me automatically, the first time bumped me up to Comfort Plus on the return, and then re-routed me through a hub, with mainline service, AND gave me a first class seat because it was the only one left.
On another rant, it amazes me how companies come up with these travel policies and then stick with "following them by the book" despite paying more in a number of travel situations. Common sense seems to be forgotten.
DaveFly wrote:Frenchify wrote:Delta's basic economy isn't bad for a number of routes. I routinely fly routes with regional jet service, so it's window or aisle anyway, and sometimes, not having to be dead set on looking out and seeing the scenery can save $70 to $100. Twice now, this year, because of weather and other delays, my flights wound up getting cancelled, and each time, Delta was right on the ball with rebooking me automatically, the first time bumped me up to Comfort Plus on the return, and then re-routed me through a hub, with mainline service, AND gave me a first class seat because it was the only one left.
On another rant, it amazes me how companies come up with these travel policies and then stick with "following them by the book" despite paying more in a number of travel situations. Common sense seems to be forgotten.
You’re very lucky. Or I’m very unlucky. Two weeks ago, I showed up at SWF for my flight to SWF-DTW-DEN. Skywest was badly delayed, so I would’ve missed any connections. Delta didn’t do squat for me. I had to brainstorm to come up with EWR-MSP-DEN the following day. It really screwed up our family vacation.
DaveFly wrote:Frenchify wrote:Delta's basic economy isn't bad for a number of routes. I routinely fly routes with regional jet service, so it's window or aisle anyway, and sometimes, not having to be dead set on looking out and seeing the scenery can save $70 to $100. Twice now, this year, because of weather and other delays, my flights wound up getting cancelled, and each time, Delta was right on the ball with rebooking me automatically, the first time bumped me up to Comfort Plus on the return, and then re-routed me through a hub, with mainline service, AND gave me a first class seat because it was the only one left.
On another rant, it amazes me how companies come up with these travel policies and then stick with "following them by the book" despite paying more in a number of travel situations. Common sense seems to be forgotten.
You’re very lucky. Or I’m very unlucky. Two weeks ago, I showed up at SWF for my flight to SWF-DTW-DEN. Skywest was badly delayed, so I would’ve missed any connections. Delta didn’t do squat for me. I had to brainstorm to come up with EWR-MSP-DEN the following day. It really screwed up our family vacation.
DaveFly wrote:I don’t want to go too far off your topic, but Skywest’s reliability is pretty suspect, in my experience. At SWF, we’re very limited in options. And EWR is quite a hike. So my question is — is American Eagle/Air Wisconsin a better carrier than Skywest?
pezzy669 wrote:My company uses AMEX Concur travel and we are absolutely required to book the lowest cost fare which typically ends up with me in Basic Economy on all but some shorter advance purchase segments (seems like 21 days is the cutoff where BE closes out).
B747forever wrote:IPFreely wrote:pezzy669 wrote:But it skirted my company rules of no paid checked bags unless you are staying 2+ nights
This sounds like a bad employer for employees who have to travel. Really bad.
If any employer I've worked for had such micro-managing penny pinching policies, most employees I know would have quit or at least refused to travel.
I don’t see anything wrong with such policy. Unless you need to transport work related material, there is absolutely no need to check in a bag for a 2 night trip.
B747forever wrote:I don’t see anything wrong with such policy. Unless you need to transport work related material, there is absolutely no need to check in a bag for a 2 night trip.
IPFreely wrote:B747forever wrote:I don’t see anything wrong with such policy. Unless you need to transport work related material, there is absolutely no need to check in a bag for a 2 night trip.
As irelayer pointed out, not many people would agree with you. Some people may need to take extra clothes or shoes for business and/or social functions, some people can not or do not want to deal with the TSA liquid rules, and many people do not want to haul all their luggage through an airport when making a connection. When people at my employer travel to/from customers for business there is a lot of business involved -- tens or hundreds of thousands in sales, or more, and tens or hundreds of thousands in profit. Good employers do not send employees to a customer to close a $100k deal or come up with a solution that saves $50k in business and tell them that they cannot afford a $25 baggage fee. A fee that is usually less than airport parking, ,taxi fares, and most or all meals during a business trip. If that $25 is so critical to a company's bottom line, that company will probably not be around very long.
pezzy669 wrote:Building these face to face tenant relations in my position has no hard monetary value to my company so our travel is strictly an expense item with no income attached to it, yeah there may be 5% of our visits (insurance carrier inspections or move outs) that may provide some tiny returns on lower premiums or minimizing losses however those savings are hardly measurable in the grand scheme of things.