I'm affiliated with a non-profit org., we fly 100's of people overseas every year at our expense. What I want to do is to use an airline that'll let us bank the miles so we can use them to fly others over.
So if anyone out there knows of an airline that will us to do this please respond.Again,the passengers don't pay 1 cent for their tickets and its not a business trip,so I feel that the org.,is entitled to the miles. If you disagree thats fine but I'm not looking for views on the subject.
THANKS in advance

FWIW, you may recall:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/002916.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/001775.html

I believe they all will. My company just reversed their policy as of Sept 1. They did keep the miles by establishing a company frequent flyer account for all travelers with the corporate office as the address. Thus I am in the process of consolidating the accouts now. The reason they stopped accumulating the miles was due to the difficulty in booking full fare tickets that are required for corporate travel. They had been saving about a million dollars a year on the frequent flyer miles. I am glad they changed the policy, but it was their decision to make. I now enjoy the fringe benifits.

LH USA offers a corporate mileage plan that allows the company and the employees to earn miles with the same flights. Details can be found here: http://www.lufthansa-usa.com/corpora...omers/cmp.html

Cheers

Mizu

As far as I know, US Airways has a similar program, too.

Check out http://www.usairways.com/corpdiv/index.htm
for more information.

As a non-profit organization, I think it may be difficult to keep the flyers from changing the ff # from the "corporate" number to their own number, Employers have corporate policy and the fear of dismissal if they change the ff recipient on their reservation.

I don't know what type of organization you have but as a non-profit, I assume you have no such control, and possibly these flyers even feel they are donating their time to your organization and appreciate the added bonus of miles. If you approach the flyers and the policy as an additional donation you may have a better chance at compliance than if you approach it in the same snotty way you posed this question.

Leisuremiles,

I reread craz's request and found nothing "snotty" about the way he phrased it. You're new to the board, so I feel we should cut you some slack. There's no need to start a flaming war over this, but if you disagree with the language of a post, a simple e-mail to the poster often clears up any misunderstanding.

Yep! Sure enough, you are right! I did a SEARCH, putting in "snooty" and this thread did NOT appear!

That's are search engine for you!

BTW- OMNI - Tribeflyer - Guess you are not pulling for the Yanks tonight!

Well, the request was phrased something like this:

"I have a question. Here's a rather controversial opinion. Don't tell me your opinion, just answer my question."

Kinda oversimplified, but that's how it read. I have elected to keep quiet on requested and non-requested information...

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Time..... is on my side.

I don't pay 1 cent either but value the chance to ingratiate myself with my family for the time I spend apart. Your request was not at all snotty in my eyes but hey that's just pompous me!. I believe Sabena or Qualiflyer run a scheme in Europe that double counts for both the individual and the company / NPO with a rebate at the end of the year. Not sure that helps on your side of the pond.

http://www.britishairways.com/ventureclub/welcome.shtml

BA's Venture Club might be a nice compromise... both the flyer and the company get credits. Haven't done this first hand, so I can't comment on how good a deal it is.

TribeFlyer,

I love the way you've appointed yourself a spokesperson for the entire board. And it was so gracious of you to decide that "we should cut Leisuremiles some slack." As if it's up to you to determine things like that.

As someone who has read many of Crazs' messages, often times he is quite snotty (not "snooty", Doc)and I felt his question above also carried that snotty tone at the end.

Thanks for playing judge and jury, though.

Craz: I understand Virgin Atlantic offer an individual + corporate facility, though I haven't tried it.

Doc: have you tried 'snotty' in the search engine (instead of 'snooty')?

(Edited for grammar)

[This message has been edited by Roger (edited 10-11-2000).]

Please address the intent of the question.

Correctly stated by SuperCat that all programs will allow companies to "own" the miles, though most companies struggle with the process since most accounts are "spoiled" these days with a mixture of personal and business miles. I have done major work on this issues for quite a few years and can help draw a strong argument either way. If you'd like to scare the management, I can provide you with an interesting court case in which a frequent flyer successfully sued the company who started to require employees to turn over their miles and I can also provide you with the legal basis on how an organization can successfully "own" employee miles. The real answer is that all domestic airlines won't help any company "manage" their miles.

Looking forward to more dialog on the orginal question only.

Very well put Randy! Thanks for the info on the court cases..I may be calling you for details.

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