Originally Posted by
highfarfast
If it's not confirmed, no hotel. If it is confirmed, you get hotel, no matter what. Confirm as soon as you can if you're a commuter. If your worried about it, put yourself on the turn-back list temporarily. You can always take yourself off after you confirm and have a hotel gauranteed.
BTW, if your a reserve guy on the turnback list, you won't know if someone was denied your flight... they just won't call you.
And facebook sucks.
I'm not thrilled with facebook either... but since we don't have a company directory, Facebook is the best way I know of reaching most people. If there is a better option, great.
Let me give you an example of why I hate the turnback list, and why I am suggesting a little more cooperation.
I proffer and get awarded a 3-1 trip that starts with a high credit turn followed a crappy overnight. Personally I don't want any of it... I just want to commute late and have the company pay for a hotel. Since I know it will be appropriated, I put myself on the turnback list so that I don't have to be tied to the phone at 5pm and can feel at ease knowing my late show will still be there when I get around to calling AVRS after dinner without risking default RAP 1.
You only want the turn, so you call in at 5pm and get denied due to the turnback list. Like you said, I won't know that you wanted it. I'll eventually confirm the assignment and take myself off the turnback list, but by then, you'll be back to playing Xbox and miss out on a couple hundred bucks. I'll end up flying those legs for free.
If you were kind enough to contact me, you could appropriate the turn before I confirm. Then when I do confirm, I get an even later show time, you make a couple extra bucks, and maybe I get to sleep in and have a quickie with little lady before commuting in to work... It's a win-win-and hopefully a win for her too.
Doesn't that sound better than "turnback list, turnback list."