Grotty boarding passes

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by mgahan

Same problems on my recent trip with the additional one of fading so bad in the few days after the LATAM trips on my trip back to home base that the boarding passes were unreadable when I needed them to attach to the travel claim. Photocopy ASAP if you need them as evidence later. Luckily I was travelling with the Minister and Permanent Secretary and they could vouch for the accuracy of the travel dates.

Just in passing, but this seems to b a uniquely Australian thing, where you have to submit boarding passes with travel expense claims. Was there a problem/fraud with people not travelling and turning their tickets back in ?

[RevMan2]

Cash in your business class ticket, fly economy. Oldest trick in the book....

[edi_local]

Originally Posted by WHBM

Just in passing, but this seems to b a uniquely Australian thing, where you have to submit boarding passes with travel expense claims. Was there a problem/fraud with people not travelling and turning their tickets back in ?

To be honest when I worked for one carrier a few years ago I had to submit boarding cards when claiming expenses for Duty Travel, even though it was all booked through my Duty Travel desk and they had access to all of my PNRs and ETKTs and even when I flew with my employer! All stuff they can check by looking at the status of my ticket and as I was flying either for a training course or to see people in head office, all of which my attendance at was logged digitally, there really was no need for me to send over my boarding card scans, but still, they insisted!