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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been a consultant for 15+ years.  Only the government allows billing travel time.  That said, any reasonable private company understand this and respects if you choose the higher cost flight for direct/timing/etc.  If you arent billing your time then book the more expensive, direct flight out of convenience.  [/quote]

I have worked for a startup, a PR firm, a small non profit, and a large international organization and I have never even heard of the expectation that one would travel on their own time. [/quote]

I’ve worked at a bunch of different places. I’m curious what everyone is defining as ‘your own time’. If I need to be someplace by 10am, I’ll catch a 6am flight. If I need to be someplace at 8am, I’ll take the 5pm flight the night before.  I don’t view this as ‘my own time’. Traveling Sunday PM or Friday PM - yes. Hate it and avoid it if at all possible. Are you suggesting that you wouldn’t book a flight before 8am or that arrived after 5pm?  [/quote]

Why is it ok to travel the night before a flight (when you theoretically would not be working otherwise) but not on the weekend? That’s my time when I could be with my family, running errands, whatever. But if I fly the night before, I am not able to do any of that and it is giving up ‘my time’. Now I do travel super early AMs, the night before, etc. If I must. But I mostly would fly after 8am if I can choose to do so.[/quote]

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