Originally Posted by ratechaser

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