Originally Posted by
LCY8737
I escalated a similar situation to our internal procurement team a few years ago. The surprising answer was that the cost that shows up on the invoice is not what we actually pay, because there are cash back and other discounts running in the background that substantially change the final bill.
Yep, I got this as well in the past, I wanted to stretch my departments travel budget by letting people travel to/from Ireland on FR/U2 - not in policy whereas BA and others were at 5 times the price. Complained to the COO who threw it back at me that there were discounts going on behind the scenes which also depended on a certain volume of bookings.
Not that I was able to get the benefit of any of this for my teams, who just had to travel less while the corporate travel department no doubt got a bonus for the opaque contracts they had negotiated
