Originally Posted by
mozilla
First, most corporate booking systems process these fares as Economy fares because of the EU fare type and that's also how they appear on any official document from UA, except on documents that are only handed to you personally like your boarding pass. Additionally, since you are booked into F right away and aren't upgraded from Y to F, written statements as "I bought an Economy ticket and didn't upgrade my ticket" are technically true and can be backed up. Furthermore, it requires intimate knowledge of fare class codes, which differ for every airline, and is beyond the capabilities of most auditors, to notice what this fare actually is. In this example, the "C" is the only bit that gives it away, and note how conveniently it again says "Economy Fare" to assist in creating reasonable doubt when questioned:
I have never seen a corporate booking portal that does not use the primary rbd of the ticket to determine the class of service. The domestic differential fare table was all coded as ER for at least a year, and "lowest First" would always display the ER /UPDI fare. I'm very skeptical this would ever work.
Originally Posted by
Often1
One of the easiest and best ways to accommodate employees on this is simply to permit, as many companies now do, employees to keep a personal CC on file as well. They may book anything they want, the allowable fare is in the TA record and that is paid by the employer, while the balance is direct-charged to the personal CC.
This; unfortunately most large employers have no interest in affording their employees this level of flexibility since it usually requires substantial effort when the default booking portal isn't configured to allow this.