Originally Posted by
Andy2
I suppose in fairness that Forbes, a business publication, does have some interest and obligation in pointing out the change in this mileage-earning policy. No doubt that many companies will give greater scrutiny to expense reports, and start limiting an employee's right to buy the airline tickets himself, in order to ensure that the lowest-priced ticket is purchased.
Cracking down on the employees' allowances to book the tickets themselves seems to have risen faster than increasing scrutiny of expense reports to interdict overpaying for tickets -- at least in the US, with regard to SMEs, since DL and its fellow industry cartel kingpin UA made the move to further incentivize customers to overpay for tickets in order to hit the elite status qualifying dollar thresholds.