<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cordelli:
[snip]You would hand them the request from point A to point B. They would come back with some insane price at times that didn't make any sense, I would go on line, get what they wanted $1,200 for down to $350 on my airline of choice, print out the details, and hand it to them for them to book my trips.
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I do the same thing. The funny thing is that my company claims to be quite cost-conscious but our in house TAs don't seem to be able to do a whole lot to help that cause. I have routinely been able to find better deals by searching Orbitz, etc. and then directing the TA to the specific dates/flights.