Just canvasing opinions..... If you divert in your big jet to an off line station how does your company arrange for payment for fuel, accommodation for crew and pax in the event of a nightstop, etc?
Background: A certain airline has just decided to issue it's flight crew with a credit card for payment of such bills. However the card appears to be actually be "personal" card, with the individual pilot being responsible for paying the card company at the end of the month.
Company's theory is:
1. Pilot pays bill for fuel etc, using his/her card and forwards expenses claim (for fuel, etc) to airline accounts on RTB.
2. Accounts then pay pilot due amount.
3.Pilot then pays his/her credit card bill when it arrives
Pilots' theory is:
1. Accounts might be tardy in paying pilot
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2. Pilot is left facing a bill for, say, 30 tonnes of Jet fuel and 100 hotel rooms without the funds in his bank account to do so.
Anybody else here use such a system?