Originally Posted by guidoface

how it works with target (who's corporate travel dept. aren't the brightest of lightbulbs), is all flights booked via them will earn miles into the flyers "professional" ff account. miles are redeemed by the travel dept. for any company traveler (not just the person with the name on the account). i know of 800k miles tapped from one employees ff account alone.

personal use of the miles is cause for termination, however the free elite perks (upgrades, lounge, etc) can be used by the account holder.

consider: vacationing overseas, if the tgt employee wants to earn miles, they can uses their own "personal" account. but if they want to use the status that they earned from their "professional" account, they can. the employee gets a sleeper seat upgrade, the company gets the miles.