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jimglab |
What's your opinion on company travel policies?
Jun 25 2010, 10:14 AM EDT
Corporate travel management helps save organizations money, but company travel policies don't always make life easier for business travelers when planning trips or while on the road. This week, we’d like to know how company travel policies and programs affect your travel. Share your stories and opinions on corporate travel management: the benefits, the challenges and how it impacts your ability to do your job. Post your comments here.
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1. RE: What's your opinion on company travel policies?
Jun 28 2010, 3:58 PM EDT
I work for a very large Pharmaceutical company. We hate "formularies" that limit patients' ability to choose our products. However, when it's our travel money, we take pride in limiting our employees' choice of travel arrangements. Funny how that works....We are also required to use a corporate web site to do our travel arrangements which claims: "we have functionality similar to the popular Travelocity web site". That's true only to the extent that they both use a computer for access. If I had access only to the company web site, I would always pay more. I routinely use Travelocity and airline web sites to find lower fares. Our company web site never posts prices until you've finished selecting flights. If I could see that traveling an hour or two later or sooner would be cheaper, and I have the flexibility, I would be happy to choose alternatives. Do you find this valuable? |
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2. RE: What's your opinion on company travel policies?
Jun 29 2010, 10:58 AM EDT
We are a small company, but I am allowed to pick my air carrier, flights and times. I have been flying for 25 years, a couple of hundred flights each year and since I am Diamond on Delta and Chairman's on USAirways, I can't remember the last time I sat in the back on a full size aircraft. I choose the hotels I stay at and make my own reservations and try to stay at Hilton properties to keep the costs down. We rent cars from Avis and my company generally makes those arrangements, so I really cannot complain about our policies. I could complain about traveling in general, but everyone that travels knows those stories.
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3. RE: What's your opinion on company travel policies?
Jul 5 2010, 7:04 AM EDT
"I work for a very large Pharmaceutical company. We hate "formularies" that limit patients' ability to choose our products. However, when it's our travel money, we take pride in limiting our employees' choice of travel arrangements. Funny how that works....As an employee for one of the major corporate online booking tools available, I can only suggest you share this complaint with your corporate travel manager. Many tools are highly configurable, with shop by schedule, or shop by price options. Your comment about not getting a price until flights are selected is very valid. The only booking tools were originally built to mirror the flow of the agent who also need you to select your preferred outbound, then, return flight, in order to get the accurate fare. Though most tools will quote you less expensive fare options to consider once your preferred flights have been selected. The better tools now offer the fare matrix available on the leisure sites, so check with your Travel Manager, to ensure that functionality is enabled, if offered by your tool provider. In my experience, many Travel Managers are slow to keep up with the advances of their technology provider. Sometimes the provider can also do a better job of communicating their enhancements, and working with the corporate client to implement them. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
