Originally Posted by
brightstar100
I have spent most of my career in investment management firms where no one has looked at cost too closely - mostly large firms but also small. I have also travelled a lot, and managed others who travel a lot, and had peers who travel a lot. I have never ever seen anyone pay £10k for a J return - in fact, we would not have allowed them to travel if it had been that much. The £10k in J return, every month, is just fiction in the real world.
"no-one looks at cost"
"if the cost was too high we wouldn't sign off the trip"
I work in Energy and whilst it's not something I'm ever required to do, I know for a fact Monday-Thursday/Friday last minute long haul trips are regularly in the region of £10k. When the projects are worth billions and that specific person needs to be on site, it gets paid. Now, do they get a significant rebate of that - well that I don't know. Quite possibly. But fully flex tickets are exorbitant.