Originally Posted by Efrem
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.
That's the same as saying that if the company wanted you to fly on Sunday outbound and Saturday return because you have enough work to do to fill up all of Monday through Friday for one visit, you would probably do it. But would you do that every single time you had a business trip with no additional compensation? I hope not.