Originally posted by SoFlyOn:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I wasn't trying to suggest anything sneaky or fraudulent. I haven't seen anything in the rules forbidding it (and what's so special about government employees?). I run my own business so I could have one account for business flights, and one for personal.</font>
Because the Comptroller General of the United States ruled in the 1980s that federal employee miles were government property, government employees were actively encouraged to keep separate accounts, or if forbidden by the carrier, to scrupulously account for personal and government miles.
On December 28, 2001, the President signed into law S. 1438, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002. Section 1116 of this law authorizes Federal employees to retain promotional items, including frequent flyer miles, earned on official travel. The Act is retroactive.
See http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html (search the 107th Congress for "S. 1438".)