Just to protect the sanctity of the game... let me make a small correction. Those were NBA basketball officials who laundered their First Class tickets and failed to report the income, not baseball umpires. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Yes, basketball!
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000787.html

Who said anything about baseball?

Sounds risky, even for a veteran scammer like myself. My personal favorite is the hotel gift certificate scam. (buy them in advance for a discount, use them as cash on checkout)

I've heard that frequent flyer prison is pretty rough. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

The one situation I would consider legitimate would be any airfare that was charged to you.. but did not get expensed (ie got a voucher) and then you applied that voucher to a future flight... since you paid for a voucher that was used as cash.. my company allows this... (usually because the voucher comes from a cancelled flight due to a client).

LOL, I guess you have to sit in an incredibly uncomfortable chair and subsist on nothing but peanuts and Dixie cups of water....

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif make that an uncomfortable MIDDLE chair!

Make that UA's mustard pretzels!

Hey stop knocking on UA's first class snack on the Shuttle.... I loved them on my 2 Hour LAX-PDX flights.. more pretzels anyone?

I think that is a vicious lie about the Sh!ttle pretzels ... just took a couple flights in "First" on UA to LAS and things are NOT what they used to be. They are now a tiny pack of some other lightweight thing but are called something other than pretzels now, (savoury shapes?) probably due to all the lapooning here on FT! I recall they were in a mix of colours?


Who ever from those above would actually declare a bumpeee $400 voucher payment to IRS or your employer I wonder if your flight got YOU home 3 hours later on a Friday evening????? Lets see how Sqeeeeky Kleeeeen the responses to that one are!



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I have thought about doing this (using FF miles for business travel), until an employee of my company got fired because he he did exactly this. We don't know how he got caught, he either bragged or the company monitored Amex statements against expense reports.

This employee in question was given a second chance. He paid back approx. $14,000 to the company, but then got caught doing this same thing again!

Since then, I have never considered doing this scam. I value my job too much. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

These posts have been very negative regarding the use of frequent flier miles for business travel. There are some possibilities that benefits everyone. They are best used if you work for a small company that doesn't have rigid rules. For instance a one-day trip with no Saturday night stay might cost $1,500. If an employee uses miles he might be willing to only be reimbursed $750, effectively selling his miles at a reasonable price. If the client or customer is not willing to pay $1,500 for the travel, everyone comes out ahead.

Can you send the IRS some Delta Dollars instead of cash in April?? Or some $25 off coupons? That would rock.



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Time..... is on my side.

What about this: Last weekend, returning from a legitimate business trip from LAS, I was able to take an earlier flight home. My original ticket was $1092 (full Y--which allowed me an immediate upgrade to FC). There was availibiltiy on the earlier flight at a much cheaper rate ($330--with seats still open in FC that as a Platinum OP member I could have immediately). She then told me she would refund the diffence as a credit to me of 762 CO credit. Legally, is this mine or should I use it on my next business trip, or give it to my company????

Legally it's for whoever paid for the ticket. If you haven't expensed it yet, you just send in a request for the lower amount.

Charging the company the higher fare and pocketing the difference is clearly illegal, and there is precedent to back it up.