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Old Nov 10, 2019 | 1:51 pm
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Originally Posted by docbert
A skilled corporate travel agent should probably tell you to pound sand.

Paying additional for exactly the same product would likely be a breach of most companies travel and/or ethics policies (for the person making the request), and certainly outside of what most companies would expect as a part of a corporate travel contract.
I agree, but many passengers have done much worse, generally by delaying making travel plans until the tickets are more expensive. That said, I don't condone this approach for OPM travel, but it would be a nice option to have for personal travel, for those of us who find it necessary to stretch for PQD. The more fares I can access, the closer I can presumably come to hitting the target PQD dead on.
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