Originally Posted by
IluvSQ
Maybe those amounts included the purchase of one or two flight passes,
so the dollar amount appears in one month while the travel is spread out
over several months?
That would be, barely, possible. 10 credit Lat FP for that region would be $4463 and Exec would be $7910. So unless they bought two Exec FP over the course of 6 weeks--pretty much meaning they were flying J every week to commute back and forth--they couldn't really spend that much. The only explanation I can think of is that they were buying Latitude fares at the last minute. Consistently.
Irrespective of what conclusion you draw, or what purchase they actually made, it is really really hard to believe that with that kind of spend that they are spending wisely or responsibly. Any FTer or corporate travel office could save them thousands of dollars *just over six weeks* without even trying, and without reducing their access to J. And when I put it that way, I am astonished they don't use Amex travel or a corporate travel office or planner that enforces policy and appropriate spending and report on violations. Every single publicly traded company does, why wouldn't they?