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12:03 AM

@chx Yes, but my point is that it doesn't matter, it's happening, that's a fact. If you have very strong evidence that something is happening on the one hand and abstract, theoretical reasons why it can't happen on the other hand, there is a point when you have to question the theory or wonder where the difference lies.

That's what I am doing: I am wondering how on earth does it work when the secretary buys the ticket but not when the brother does

I accept it doesn't

Fine

I just don't understand.

But not, on this topic, we've got people who were still mocking the OP and claiming it was indisputably not happening even after someone posted screenshots and links to airlines T&C mentioning.

Yes, you're a reasonable person ;)

I think a bit of profiling, maybe some fancy fraud detection algorithm (if the card has been used without issue and you have a history with the airlines, maybe you're deemed low risk?)

I don't know how many people actually travel on someone else's credit card for business either

well, we did

for five years we did

My previous employer (a university) either booked tickets for us through a travel agency or let us pay with our own credit cards

we had a company credit card

12:06 AM

it depends on the airline somewhat, some airlines are more accepting

we were very small, like 5 people in the beginning

and many corporate tickets will be bought through a corporate travel agency, which avoids the issue entirely

My current employer usually books tickets through a travel agency, with very frequent flyer getting a credit card on the company's dime but under their name

Well, after Examiner bought us out, yes, Carlson Wagonlit took over

that was very fancy

We do have a departmental credit card but we only use it to buy drinks at a local cash & carry, not for travel

12:07 AM

and bloody inconvenient

they couldn't accommodate quite a bit of the stuff i was doing

so after a few trips I was allowed to book my own and expense it, lol

some employees would rather use their own card and get the miles and expense it anyway

booking your own travel is also the best way to prevent situations like where your boss thinks you can have a 40 minute layover at LAX where you have to change terminals instead of a perfectly good direct flight for a few bucks more

We use Carlson Wagonlit for flights

That's somewhat inflexible but still OK

We have a completely brain dead system for hotel bookings, I am still not sure exactly why or how it works

We have to go through some third-party company handling the bookings and charging us for the pleasure...

but they book with my credit card number, which I had to provide to them at some point!

oh boy, when they asked what kind of hotel room I liked I answered, totally honestly, that I liked one which had a good roof and its own bathroom :P

Then they booked me in the Brown Palace in Denver LOL

Is that a fancy hotel?

now that looks like a grand old hotel

12:18 AM

@Relaxed the fanciest there is

@Relaxed i do not think there's a fancier in Denver

or the entire Midwest, frankly

the problem I always have with those kinds of places is that sometimes it's hard to tell from afar when something is nicely renovated and historical vs merely old and once great

I usually don't like fancy hotels

It does look fancy

there was one exception, the Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh, that was an experience

But it's not out-of-this-world expensive, at least

12:23 AM

although my memories of Edinburgh are probably rose tinted because the weekend I went for was exceptional even if the Monday didn't -- I went to QMU to participate first in a two day DMT workshop then did an admittance exam to the DMT Masters course which I was refused from

the workshop was fantastic

DMT? Google suggests that “DMT is a powerful, visual psychedelic which produces short-acting effects when smoked.”

And you did say the workshop was fantastic…

Dance/movement therapy (DMT) in USA/ Australia or dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) in the UK is the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body. As a form of expressive therapy, DMT looks at the correlation between movement and emotion. A typical DMT session has four main stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and evaluation. Organizations such as the American Dance Therapy Association and the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK, maintain standards of professional courtesy and high levels of educationa...

In other news, I noticed Spitsbergen/Svalbard is not in TSE official list of “countries visited”. I was hoping that I would for once go to place where not everybody had been before but it turns out it does not count!

And jpatokal has apparently been there 10 years ago, too

are we starting to travel to impossible places just to tick a box on that list, lol?

There aren't many left, Asmara looks interesting and flights are cheap (for Africa), at least from my locale

Svalbard is actually surprisingly easy to get to, that's one of the reasons I decided to go there.

There are low-cost flights with Norwegian, €300 return from AMS. It's cold and there are bears, but the tourism infrastructure looks pretty good too, considering the remoteness.

12:42 AM

Svalbard isn't a country, but I guess we're treating it as a territory?

No, we're not

But its status is a lot more funky that some territories we are treating separately

Like French Guyana

we should have a sitewide meetup there and argue about whether it's a territory :)

Sounds like a great idea!

12 hours later…

12:45 PM

As promised travel.stackexchange.com/questions/83554/… bounty opened

it will allow me to award it tomorrow.

1:30 PM

SPAMMER indahouse travel.stackexchange.com/users/54415/easystay-marrakech

2 hours later…

3:46 PM

I think blocking a user requires a diamond

3 hours later…

6:43 PM

state.gov/m/ds/rls/263916.htm

criminals were running a fake US Embassy in Ghana for about a decade before it was shut down

A fake Netherlands one too

4 hours later…

10:45 PM

neat.

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