Originally Posted by purple101

If you are on that airline to get to or from somewhere your company requires you to be, that airline should be getting paid. The exception would be between your home and your domicile. Where you live is your personal choice and not a requirement of your employer.

FedEx has the same policy. If they extend a discount to an another airline's employees, that is for the employee's personal use. If they own a mail order catalog or run a business selling stuff on Ebay they should not use their discount for that.

The Jet Blue Pilots may have said that they did not care but I am pretty sure their management is not in the business of moving other company's employees around for free.

FedEx has a responsibility to get you back to domicile. It is a cost of doing business. Why did NWA get paid to get you back to domicile but Jet Blue didn't.

Your rationalization concerning money out of your own pocket does not hold any water.

Jet Blue's management does not know or care anything about your bank or lack there of. All they know is that they carried out FedEx's responsibility to get you back to domicile, and they did it for free.

I say all this because regardles of your actions, you certainly should be careful of how you verbilize them.