Originally Posted by rehabusrab
If my company ever wanted to do this, i would simply ONLY fly during the week and between 9 and 5. The company currently gets tons of my time via weekends, evenings, and early mornings that it would simply lose if one was such pigheaded. i cant believe people put up with this unless they only have to fly a few times a year.
And if your company wants you to work late or on a weekend for some other reason, such as a customer proposal to finish or a design review to prepare for? If it made sense and was generally considered part of the job, you would - and you wouldn't expect, or get, frequent flyer miles for it. Travel is no different.
It comes down to this: the job is what it is, and the compensation is what it is. When the job involves travel, miles can be part of the compensation, but (even though we on FT have a strange emotional attachment to them) they're not some special animal that needs to be treated differently. The approach of
outoftown, where s/he said in effect "No miles? OK, more $$" makes sense. Getting hung up on miles to where we lose sight of the overall picture doesn't.