Originally Posted by
Carolinian
Almost all of our travel is international. Was your firms' mostly domestic? Our employees also have a useful perk, in that if a trip is over a set number of hours, we are entitled to a stop over enroute, with per diem and hotel. Many of us take advantage of that when we can.
One of the places I worked was a major international consulting firm so there was quite a bit of international travel. On routes where there was lots of competition, say IAD-LHR or ORD-LHR, folks would fly based on FF programs. But I would wager that most of the time, and nearly all of the time domestically, it came down to the convenience issue. Certainly you're right though that for international travel there was more of a push to FF programs.
IME a lot of business travelers are racking up FF miles on flights they would be taking anyway. !-)