I don't think we'll see the day anytime soon where companies of any size will let employees go book their own business travel through websites. Unless it's a REALLY small outfit. But the airlines had to make it easy to filter out the lowest fares just the same.

In a way I used to really feel for the corporate travel people at a large company where I used to work. Theirs was a world of constant whip-cracking and edicts and general non-empowerment, yet they got travel-agent-like pay. The worst of both worlds.

Meanwhile, I was able to do stuff on my own leisure bookings (ENT coupons, FF gaming, etc.) that still made costs on the "one size fits all" policies look high.