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Old 05-29-2015, 02:04 PM
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If you are deviating from an international trip that has a domestically scheduled layover and you have enough bank money after buying the tickets can you use the remainder of that money on a hotel for a night? Even if the hotel is in a different city than the scheduled layover? Ground transportation?? Thanks
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If you are deviating from an international trip that has a domestically scheduled layover and you have enough bank money after buying the tickets can you use the remainder of that money on a hotel for a night? Even if the hotel is in a different city than the scheduled layover? Ground transportation?? Thanks
Yes, yes and yes. Standard limits for the FedEx hotel contract rate apply. However, based on my experience with the Fox system, the rate will be based on the city of the scheduled layover, not the city you are deviating through.
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Yes, yes and yes. Standard limits for the FedEx hotel contract rate apply. However, based on my experience with the Fox system, the rate will be based on the city of the scheduled layover, not the city you are deviating through.
I think it's actually supposed to be based on the city of the operational leg. So for example you have a deadhead MEM-CDG layover then deadhead CDG-DXB layover then operate - you decide to deviate and get a nice downtown hotel in CDG, your rate will be based on the max contract rate for DXB. Not a big deal in this example but places like CAN that have really low rates can hurt you.
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I think it's actually supposed to be based on the city of the operational leg. So for example you have a deadhead MEM-CDG layover then deadhead CDG-DXB layover then operate - you decide to deviate and get a nice downtown hotel in CDG, your rate will be based on the max contract rate for DXB. Not a big deal in this example but places like CAN that have really low rates can hurt you.
I'm aware of the part of the contract that supports your opinion. However, I can only go on what has happened to me personally.

The fox system appears to populate the pull-down menu for "location" on lodging expenses with every layover city on one's pairing. So, in your scenario, since a CDG layover was scheduled in between the DHs, CDG would be selectable as the location of the "nice downtown" deviation hotel in CDG.

Last year I had a back-end DH trip. Scheduled was NRT-SEA, layover, SEA-ANC. I deviated and went NRT-LAX, layover, LAX-ANC. For location on the LAX deviation hotel I was able to select SEA from the pull-down menu, use the rate for SEA and my expense report was closed out that way.
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Thank you guys !
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I think it's actually supposed to be based on the city of the operational leg. So for example you have a deadhead MEM-CDG layover then deadhead CDG-DXB layover then operate - you decide to deviate and get a nice downtown hotel in CDG, your rate will be based on the max contract rate for DXB. Not a big deal in this example but places like CAN that have really low rates can hurt you.
Tuck, the Fox system will allow you to choose which layover city to use. There's a dialog box with an arrow that you select and in your example you wil have a choice between CDG or DBX. Obviously, you want to select the city with the higher hotel accepted fare (this hotel fare info is found somewhere in Vips). As a side note, VIPS is an acronym that stands for Voice Integrated Phone System. Maybe it's time fedex issues a new acronym to reflect this present century we are living in.
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Great to know -thanks guys!
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