KJC - Nice try.
Unless your an occasional contract pilot, your not covering your own expenses and waiting weeks for reimbursement. The fact that a biz owner would trust his pilots with his families life and a $25 million dollar plane doesn't jive with him not trusting you with the hotel bill, taxis and meals.
That said, it also requires the pilots to be carrying serious dedicated plastic for just aviation trips, requiring a credit line most pilots don't have, and an accounting system most pilots aren't smart and disciplined enough to maintain.
So I call bull****, but if by some stretch you are flying for an outfit that makes you cover your expenses, they must have been burned by pilots before, which talks of their hiring practices...which not surprisingly jives perfectly with the pay to fly, my buddy got me a job type of mentality so rife in this forum.
Just an observation.