Originally Posted by
baliktad
Of course, they also claim that this policy is "much more flexible than most of our industry peers" and that many companies have done away with business class travel altogether.
Lol, that is a pretty sad excuse. Most companies have 8+ hours rule some are 8.5 hours and there are some that allows 4 hours, which means you can book F on transcons. I know a guy who is a VP and his customer base is primarily the airlines [offers pricing/yield management tools/software], so he travels a ton to a wide range of conferences [IATA, etc], travels to meet with Amadeus and Sabre, travels between offices [based in HKG half of the time and in the US half of the time], and travels to meet with clients. He has a rather large budget for his work trips, however, he has to budget wisely and for some trips he has to fly in Y, but the SWUs helps keep that to a minimum. From my observations, it seems like he flies in C/F about 75-80% of the time for long-haul trips, so that is not too bad.
Your company's policy is one of the most inflexible travel policy I have ever heard only topping a Y-only policy.
I wonder what my new company's travel policy will be like even though I will not be doing any traveling for work. It is a Fortune 500 bank [and no I am not going to work in a banking branch
], so there might be some opportunities to transfer into a position that does require travel
Still plenty of years ahead of me, so we will find out what the future holds for me in due time
And I hope that a company with a much more flexible travel policy!