Originally Posted by
Wozza2404
"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.
I am sure there are people/organisations that do need to do that, as your example shows. My point is that in "the City" where a lot of people point to this happening, I have not found it common. Agree that a corporate financier doing an M&A deal might need to book a ticket, that last minute, but those people are quite rare and it would be literally 1 x MD not a whole team.
I would observe that your use of quotation marks does not actually directly quote exactly what I wrote
