Originally Posted by
mkjr
or is it that there is some sort of kick back scheme they have with AC? for example, they get rebates so much $$$ spend on AC? if something is booked directly, perhaps that does not factor into the yearly spend.
or perhaps companies get larger discounts if they spend more on AC, which is why they want to make sure all of it is captured.
This is definitionally not a kickback. It is a rebate or a discount. A kickback occurs when some travel manager gets a payment of 10% of the ticket value from AC. A rebate or discount is the situation where the entity paying for the ticket, pays less or gets part of the ticket cost back based on volume.