okay, several of you are saying that only reputable employers put people in BE and I'm sorry but sounds like a lot of you are also out of touch with reality. I've worked for 3 major software companies in my life. During the 90s; yes--it was common that any flight over X hours was in BE; but then it shifted to only execs, then finally it shifted to "we dont buy business at all for anyone." I've talked to several people at several different larger companies to find out if this has been a trend and they all seem to have similar policies plus I read about everyone having those same policies on this forum.

I think it's safe to no longer assume that only "reputable" employers put you in BE. With fares for BE ranging between 4-15k; it's just no longer feasible for most companies who are making a profit.

I won't try to represent everyone--I'm a corporate trainer by trade and my company has a small team (13 of us) who do this every week. If we were putting everyone in BE; we'd barely make any return/margin on the classes we teach and our parent company might honestly just do all of our training/certification classes online.