Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: New York, NY
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As they should be... such conduct its clearly prohibited and employees shouldn't be taken seriously if they plead ignorance of the policy.
Abuse of pass travel benefits has been around forever, but in this day and age, with greater restrictions on buddy passes and high load factors across the system, they are almost a useless perk, and have value for only the most flexible of travelers. On the other hand, higher-priority benefits (such as spouse/domestic partner designation), which come with virtually unrestricted, unaccompanied pass privileges, are much more valuable and the company needs to come down hard on this kind of fraud.