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Old Jan 5, 2008 | 7:12 am
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GBadger
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Thanks guys for the responses.

For what it's worth, work's paying for 95%+ of travel, although she searches for her own tickets (ie no corporate travel office), and almost always goes with the cheapest option that fits her schedule. The schedule thing is pretty tight, as often she has meetings to get to etc., and can't risk connections or long layovers (so non-stops are always preferred).

As far as how much flying...hard for me to tell, because she doesn't always tell me when she's going somewhere. But I would guess that she covers significantly more ground than I do, and I covered about 80k EQMs in 2007. I would guess that she flies to the west coast 1-2 times/month, the midwest/south 1-2 times/month and then overseas 3-4 times/year. I would guess that she would end up in the 100k miles per year area.

I hadn't thought of BD...I don't know that that would help her out much with the bulk of her flying (US transcons), and again, she tends to be on Virgin over to London, because often they are the cheapest.

MrAOK, I'm guessing you meant VirginAmerica? Are they planning to cover much ground from DC?

Thanks again!

Last edited by GBadger; Jan 5, 2008 at 7:17 am Reason: Clarification on ticket purchasing
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