Sounds like ours, with a few additional exceptions

Well I'm glad to see I'm not in the ghetto (misery loves company?)

The most unnerving thing about being stuck in coach is, for example, the LAX-DCA I have next month - all the flights are packed, so I can't even get exit row. It's a six hour flight during the day, and I would honestly prefer working, but that ain't happening in non-exit coach.

Investment banks and consulting firms tend to pay for at least business class. We can usually get first if it's only a two-class flight, but business is the most common.

Business class is allowed when continuous flight time is greater than eight hours, otherwise economy.

A couple of people have commented that they keep their miles (as do I): not to hijack the thread, but is there anyplace that isn't true?

Under $850, buy anything you want. Over $850, pray to the manager for help.

Over $850 has only come up a couple of times and both times I was able to pull it off. Once to ANC for $1,200 in FC. The other was to the SAT Do last year. I was supposed to be off the following week and something came up that they needed me to work. The boss asked if I could take it...I said yes, but I am committed to SAT and would have to go from there to the client and if they wanted me to do that, they would have to pay all of the three way trip. So, I bought a $1,300 DO ticket.

We only do domestic.

Working for a large multi-national consulting firm, our policy is anything less than 7 hrs or domestic is coach, anything above 7 hrs and international you can fly the next class up from coach. However, all tickets must be purchased on the cheapest airline option within reason.

I work for a Fortune 50 company, and the policy is:

Under 5 hrs flight time = Econ
Over 5 hrs flight time = Bus
Over 10 hrs flight time = First

The policy is not stated to differentiate between employee levels. My guess is that senior management fly the company jets.

Luckily for me I am based on LAX and most travel is to Europe or NYC. So Europe is in F and NYC is in J.

You are a better FF than I. Although my company also has the "use your own da*n miles to upgrade" policy, I have yet to succumb. Though on my trip last week LEX to SYD and back (20+ hours in the air each way) I came that much closer to convincing myself it would be worth it.
The opening of our support group begins - "hello, my name is viajero, my a** is shaped like the seat cushion in coach class...my company doesn't pay for business or first class, though I feel blessed because they are gracious enough to let me keep the miles - my boss even puts them in my annual proforma/review as a company provided benefit, it wasn't until I began reading FT that I realized that there ARE companies that have generous upgrade policies"

Think my user name sums up my employer's policy

Try 23 hours LHR-SYD in Y and straight to the office for a 9am start.

Work for a Fortune 500 company with about 4B in annual revenue.

Co. policy, regardless of employee level is based on flight mileage, which ends up being C for flights over around 8 hrs. I think this is pretty fair, and since most of my travel ends up being long-haul international, suits me just fine.

Recently worked for complany where policy was C class, any flight, any employee. Exec flew first class.

Economy under 4 hours - ideally cheapest changeable ticket. No LCC's

Business over 4 hours. Lots of route deals with 20-60% discounts, otherwise pick the direct carrier you want.

Seems totally reasonable to me - I wouldn't choose to work for an organisation that wanted me to fly 19 hours in economy.

I guess you aren't in software engineering.

Ed

employee discount rooms are to be used for non-company related travel... probably something to appease all of the franchisees worried about their bottom line, should a hotel convention swing through their town.

I'm a partner/owner. I can flight whatever I like. I pay for it.

I did see a SAG contract ones. Thought it was very interesting. IIRC, when working on a film, if anyone on the "producer" side flies business or first at any time during production, they must pay for all SAG members to fly at the same level of service throughout production.