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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. My employer keeps the miles. Just another perk that has gone away, along with private offices, company phones and pensions. [/quote]

I don't understand how this is possible.  When you arrive at the airport, add your FF number to your ticket.  How would a company police that? 
If you mean 'keep the points' that are earned with a purchase of airfare...then, the company is paying for the ticket, so they earn the points.

Frequent Flier miles are earned on the actual flight...not at the time of purchase.[/quote]

Yes--this is exactly the issue that the Federal Government ran up against.  They had a policy that employees could not use FF points earned from government travel for personal use.  Some allowed use for booking tickets or upgrades for business travel.

There were attempts at several investigations at multiple agencies of individuals whom they tried to audited for adherence to the policy but it was very intrusive into employee's personal lives and they had to back off.  Plus it was very difficult to sort out--people get points for personal travel and personal purchases so in some cases it was very challenging to trace it all through.  Plus online tracking of points was not nearly as developed then as now and the airlines refused to provide records--most employees had to keep paper from the airlines to know how many points they had.  If they said they had thrown the papers out, there was really not much the IG people could do.

The federal agency IGs then shifted to trying to get the airlines to agree to two separate FF account numbers for federal employees--one personal and one for the government.  The airlines said no dice and eventually the IGs threw in the towel and agreed employees could use the FF miles they had earned.[/quote]

Out of curiosity, my husband is a federal employee (attorney) and only recently started to have to do a lot of business travel.  He has not inquired about the status of the frequent flyer points.  Do you think every federal employee gets to use them, or does it vary by agency?[/quote]

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