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First things first, she will need to clear with her employer whether it s okay to collect points for the travel she books. It s better to be safe than sorry- no amount of points is worth losing your job- especially in this economy. My honest advice would be to inform her manager about the programs I m going to mention in order to add value to the company and cement your standing. Assuming they are okay with it (or for any small business owners out there) here are some ways to get points and save money on your travel spend:
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American has the Business ExtrAA  program. Your company will receive one point for each $10 you spend to fly on published exotic hawaii car rentals fares during the month. Your company will earn double credit for every eligible itinerary that originates from one of over 200 airports [excludes Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) and Miami (MIA)] Gary at  View From the Wing recently blogged that it may be possible to earn an extra 5,000 AA miles for signing up using promo code SME3Q11 , but it s up in the air whether exotic hawaii car rentals that bonus actually works. Can t hurt to try!
British Airways has the  On Business program. Earning is complicated, but you get 4,320 points for a first class roundtrip to Australia and it only costs 3,120 for an intra-European roundtrip (see redemption chart here ).
Delta has the SkyBonus program. It s free to sign-up (they don t actually require any proof of your business) and you earn up to 30 SkyBonus points per dollar spent. You can then redeem earned points on things exotic hawaii car rentals as small as 10 drinks coupons (10,000 points) or a free coach roundtrip in the US (85,000). I used bonus code SB2011NEW earlier this year for a 25,000 point sign-up bonus, but I m not sure if it s still active. Can t hurt to try!
Hilton has the Event Planner. In typical Hilton style, they give a double dip earning option of 1 HHonors bonus point and 1 airline mile per US$ spent. Qualification: Your event must be contracted with the hotel in advance for a minimum of US$1,000. Eligible charges include those for guest rooms, meeting rooms and catering (excluding exotic hawaii car rentals taxes and service charges).
Hyatt has the Gold Passport Meeting program. Earn 1 bonus point for every eligible U.S. dollar spent on your event up to 50,000 bonus points* Receive bonus points for eligible dollars spent on guestrooms, meeting rooms, banquets and in-house catering Split your earned bonus points up to three ways to reward co-workers and colleagues who helped you plan your qualifying event Or, earn bonus points exotic hawaii car rentals for your company**
Marriott has the Rewarding Events program that offers either For every $1 US in total charges, you can choose to earn either: 3 points per $1 US Maximum 50,000 or 1 airline mile per $1 US Maximum 15,000. exotic hawaii car rentals Marriott also offers elite status: As a member, you also earn 10 Elite nights along with your points for each qualifying group, meeting, or event . Silver Elite is 10 Elite night, Gold Elite is 50 Elite nights and Platinum exotic hawaii car rentals Elite after 75 Elite nights. Qualifying meeting is: a room block must actualize with at least 10 rooms on one night to earn points or miles
Marriott is also running a triple points promotion for meetings: Register by March 31, 2012. Book your event at any participating Marriott brand between September 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012. Hold your event between September 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012. Earn triple points (up to 150,000) for every event, starting with your 2nd event.
Priority Club has Meeting Rewards. You earn 3 Priority Club points for every US$1 you spend on qualified meetings* at InterContinental Hotels Resorts — as well as all Priority Club Rewards Family of Brands hotels — in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Latin America. Qualified meeting: Consists of 10 or more guest rooms within exotic hawaii car rentals your group block occupied for at least one night of the meeting with associated meeting-related food and beverage charges applied to your master bill. The maximum benefit per qualified meeting is 60,000 points
Starwood    has the Preferred Planner program: One point for every three U.S. dollars of eligible group revenue (to a maximum exotic hawaii car rentals of 20,000 Starpoints per event). Free Starwood Platinum status with $100,000 in yearly spend.
This raises a lot of ethical dilemmas. First I would have the girl friend check with her company regarding their view of her collecting points for doing her job. Many companies allow employees who actually travel to keep points as a benefit, to offset the cost of being on the road away from home and family. Because the girl friend is simply doing her job, the employer may view her collecting exotic hawaii car rentals points in this way as stealing a benefit that actually belongs to the employer. GA
Reading your suggestions and seeing no caveats except beware with opentable bc you may get caught really strikes the wrong note, but might be what the writer (an outside party themself) wants to hear.
Bottom line is when booking someone elses travel or your own, as part of your job description, you will have rules to follow exotic hawaii car rentals and basic ethics to keep in mind. Most important is to ensure the company is not paying more so you can collect exotic hawaii car rentals some sort of kickback So if bigcrumbs, etc is considered or you use an orbitz vs booking direct, i would expect that the person, as part of their job, would first ensure they are delivering the best value to the company before ensuring their own personal exotic hawaii car rentals savings acct gets funded. Their job is on the line if they were to get off course and that should not be forgotten. Anonymous
I assumed they would clear this with their employer first in order to not lose their job, but just to be safe I added another disclaimer at the beginning of the post. While I love points, they aren t worth losing your job over! Anonymous
It sucks that their first thought exotic hawaii car rentals is not how can I save the company money , but how can I capitalize on this ? Sounds like Wall Street thinking. This would be a great reference for the owner of small business that did travel. Gpapadop
I wouldn t go there regarding the air tickets exotic hawaii car rentals and dining. But I would definitely look into the meeting planner angle and clear this up with the company FIRST and get it in WRITING. And if she likes and wants to keep her job I would probably let that go too Mark
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How is this unethical? I m giving everyone tips on how they can maximize the return on the money they spend on travel- whether you own a small business, work for one or just want to maximize your personal exotic hawaii car rentals spend. I clearly stated anything you do for a company should be approved with them beforehand. Anonymous
My thinking would be that if the boss doesn t know about the various airline exotic hawaii car rentals business programs, when he/she finds out, they will want it used on the company. I cannot exotic hawaii car rentals imagine a company that would allow the person responsible for booking travel to use a corporate airline account for their personal benefits. Again, up to the employer, however. exotic hawaii car rentals Who knows! BTW, there is a Skybonus sign-up that I used a month or two ago that gives you 40,000 points after your first flight. I think it runs until the end of this month JUNSKYMAG is the code I think (or it maybe JULY instead of JUN). BluTangle
exotic hawaii car rentals How I understand your post is your girlfriend has just gotten or not even started the job and you re looking at this angle for some benefits to the job and you write to a blog instead of asking the company. Did I miss anything ? Second question is why does this blog even entertain such questions ? I know, I know freedom of speech and all that. How about smuggling questions ? It s just a topic ? Anonymous
exotic hawaii car rentals There is still valuable information in the post, but people are getting sidetracked by the ethical dilemma of the reader (which I personally don t have an issue with as long as everything is approved by their employer) Anonymous
Seriously? I m the one who asked this question. For everyone to be slamming on TPG is absurd. Of course I d have my GF ask the company if she can do the booking while earning points. She s not stealing anything from the company it still is booked on the corporate cards. She just has the option to book via any search engine she chooses, so she might as well use one that may provide rewards.
exotic hawaii car rentals The fact that people are making this an ethics question is well beyond exotic hawaii car rentals the scope of this blog. I m sorry, TPG, that some of your readers feel the need to be ethics police on subjects that don t need policing.
Unethical?I don t want to be rude but WTF are you talking about? you can make points or cashback on reservation, you don t have to steal any points because employees will get their points/miles. You can maximize this using referral websites (fatwallet, Bigcrumbs, AAeShopping). They can even get