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Feb 1, 2006 | 10:24 pm

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Originally Posted by hazzey

How does this work? Do these companies have special deals worked out with the airlines that go against the usual "only the flier can get miles" requirements? Or maybe a company FF# that is put on all the tickets?

'But a select few companies, including Wal-Mart, Chrysler and Anheuser-Bush, were able to negotiate deals that allowed them to pool employee miles and use them for business travel, said Randy Petersen, who publishes a newsletter, Inside Flyer, that caters to corporate travelers. Those deals, although rarely publicized, were allowed because of the immense volume of travel those companies booked.

"Wal-Mart has been doing it this way for a long, long time," said Petersen, who managed Wal-Mart's frequent-flier program as an independent consultant in the late 1980s and early '90s. He estimates that at the time, the company was saving close to $1 million annually by using the miles for business travel'

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=520711

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