In reality, (unless they have tightened it up even more) you likely have bought your own ticket with your CC that gives you ‘airline miles’ -and you end up ‘eating’ the $50 at the end of the month. . you don’t owe the Co. anything. If, you can’t get anything cheaper than the ‘scheduled’ ticket value for both ends of the D/H. . you eat $100 . . or what ever the RT difference.

The last few years I pretty much did all the deviating via Limo -and saved the Bean Counters THOUSANDS, in the course of making my quality of life exceptionally better than riding a D/H someplace.

OR. . you can forget about racking up ‘airline miles’ on your personal CC and order your tickets from Corporate Travel in MEM. THAT’S when you end up having to write the Company a check. . if you have them make your deviant reservations.

THEN . . . there is the issue that they stuck to us with the last contract, which I REALLY hated & was the main reason I voted against the contract.

I have thankfully forgotten the gory details . .someone more current can fill you in. . but it has to do with being no more than 100 miles away from the departure airport at a set time before the live departure of your revenue trip. Apparently we had some folks who were not adults and failed to show after deviating . . and they screwed it up for the rest of us who were responsible enough to know we had to be there at a certain time.

In my case, when I had LAX or ONT or OAK departures and live in No County SAN, the computer said I was outside the 100 mi radius and I had to insure I was in there MANY hours before I would otherwise plan to be there. It made it a REAL PITA, since there were SO many ways to get to the Ramp for show time, but you had to ‘check in’ from inside the 100 mi radius. Glad to be not doing it anymore