Originally Posted by
Sweet Willie
My old company, I could regularly use FF miles for the price of a ticket and get reimbursed. The cost that I would get reimbursed for was the MARKET price for the ticket, not the ticket price for the airline I was redeeming miles on.
I'm curious about how the accounting department justified this expense since there would be no actual receipt showing you spent anything on the ticket. Since you have no expense receipt to offset the reimbursement, did you claim the reimbursement as income and pay taxes on it? Seems like a can of worms to me.
I guess one way around this for a last minute ticket would be to book a refundable ticket, print the receipt, cancel it and book another ticket using FF miles, then turn in the receipt for the flight you canceled. I wouldn't want to get caught doing this at any place I've worked, it would definitely be frowned upon.