I'm enrolled in United Corporate Direct through my employer, which provides a small discount on most United fares when traveling for business. We're prohibited from using these fares for personal travel. There is a box to check if you're traveling on business, otherwise you get public rates for personal travel.

Today, for the first time, when in the normal personal travel mode I got fares that said "corporate leisure" and were discounted versus the otherwise publicly available fares. There was also a message at the top saying "Corporate Leisure travel must include the account holder."

Sadly, I didn't book immediately, and now while that message is still showing at the top, it's not showing me discounted fares anymore.

Has anyone ever seen this before? Is it a new program? Presumably since it says "leisure," the fares can be used for personal travel?