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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 3:31 am
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Originally Posted by BOH
Result: I had a meeting near Chicago and from LHR they routed me via LAX and back to ORD. Probably an extra 5 hours total in the air - in Y Some sale UA or AA had on IIRC and saved them about $200.
I've had clients do this to one of my team too, some years ago. I billed them for the extra time which came to about 3 times as much as the saving (and gave the guy a day off in compensation). It was paid, never mentioned, and they never asked to do the travel arrangements again !
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