"nobody" wrote in message
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Typically, they pay refundable Y fare rates.

Yeah, you SAP guys had it pretty damn good. Since you sold the system to the
CEO you could usually get a fair deal when it came to travel but we were a
lot farther down the food chain, and often had to eat travel costs
ourselves. Needless to say, that company is no longer in business...

I wonder how your clients knew how you flew. Most of my teams have enough
miles that they are traveling platinum elite status and almost without
exception, fly first class for the price of refundable coach. I'm not
aware
that the clients have any idea that my teams are traveling first class.

If the ticket cost was reasonable they wouldn't ask any questions. The main
thing they would grumble about was when they booked an appointment two
months out and we bought the ticket a week before, thus pushing us into the
high-fare bucket. The sales guys bitched about that too but then you should
have heard them moan when we had to throw a restricted ticket away because
they'd sell the same guy to a client in some other city the day after the
first client's job finished, and the cheap ticket we bought two months
earlier couldn't be changed. Idiots.

-cwk.