I work for a large (150K employees +) company whose corporate (AX) travel department strongly encourages us to fly the friendly skies. On a recent JFK-HKG booking I was told that that my name, flight etc. would show up on an exception report due to the fact that I asked that a CX ticket be issued saving my company approximately $2300.00. Evidently some bonehead within our CFO and/or purchasing organization made a revenue commitment to UAL but did not negotiation guaranteed lowest cost tickets. I routinely receive premium memberships from a number of hotel/car rental companies but have never received an offer of complimentary PE status from UAL. Incidentally, I am EP with AA and of course fly CX due to oneworld and all of those nice bonus miles.