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Originally Posted by gleff

Any cool stuff in the signup packages for any of these programs? The USAirways Corporate Awards program used to come with a couple of space available upgrade certs. The America West program used to come with one upgrade cert, too, a long time ago... Made it worth just signing up for the program to get the certs. ;)

Not that I've seen so far. Starwood is the only one that's given anything - makes everyone you attach to it "Preferred Business" members (pseudo Gold) and gives you a signup bonus of 700 Business AAdvantage points if you signup through their link.

Continental seems to be the least restrictive airline program, mostly because it's a "set it and forget it" (like the Starwood.) As long as the employee's Continental number is in their system, you'll get points. As far as I'm concerned, that's "free" incentives because I don't keep having to track down ticket numbers in expense reports ;)

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Originally Posted by heathriel

Because they say so :)

http://www.usairways.com/business/corporate_dividends/

Thanks. Odd that the program is still online.

BA's new program to replace Venture Club is now called On Business with some enrollment bonus thru 31 March. Details can be found at www.ba.com/onbusiness

Updated to add:

Aerolineas
Westjet
Air Moldova
Aloha
Aires
Aerosur
BMI
SAS
Finnair
Virgin Express
Air Malta
Hi Fly
Iberia
Olympic
LAN
Sol Melia

Marriott has a Rewards Programm for Meeting Planners:

http://marriott.com/meeting/rewards/default.mi

How do these corporate programs work?

Specifically, I am interested in Continental and Starwood / Marriot.

What would we get? What would be the downside?

Thanks,
David