Has anyone found a way to get accepted fares raised (This year) when deviating after a significantly higher priced scheduled ticket is bought?

Looks like the expense report automatically adjusts for fares higher than accepted when flying as scheduled but that extra allowance is taken away once you deviate.

Anyone?

Not yet. .

It becomes even worse when ticket prices increase quickly. Most tickets bought seem to be higher than accepted fares.

It's become a cost center for them.

I'm pretty much done with saving the company $5,000 one month--then getting payroll deducted for 100 bucks the next trying to position for a trip.

I now fly the scheduled. No more savings, no more deductions. Easy.

This issue has been discussed at length in previous posts. I have started a couple of them. This is an issue I deal with frequently as a commuter. We have been getting the accepted fares adjusted higher for many years until someone woke up one morning and decided to change the policy. No contractual negotiation or change, just someone's personal decision to change the policy.

This change comes at a time when load factors are at all-time highs due to aircraft being parked and fewer flights. The deviator is held to the published accepted fare so there is no "onus" on the company to adjust the fares to a realistic fair market rate. The fares are based on the maximum contractual discount rate, 2-3 months in advance of actual travel. On average, 3 out of 4 of my tickets are ticketed at a higher amount by Global Travel than the published accepted fare. I usually delay deviating just to see what Global Travel can buy the ticket for.

Many times when I call Global travel to make my reservations they say the max discount rate isn't available and they quote me the next level discounted fare which is usually many $$ higher. I do this ASAP after getting my bid award in an attempt to get the max discounted fare. That fare is getting as elusive as getting seats on an airplane using frequent flyer miles.

If we want to fix this I think we need to not deviate for a while. MEM would be so busy and there would be so many bumped flights, I think we would then be able to get the company to fix this.

If nobody deviated at the begenning of the week I think it would shut down Memphis.

Just my $.02.

I would rather the MEC work on this issue than worry about Presidential endorsement.

It has been floating around a long time with seemingly no action taken.

I'm disappointed.

A few months ago, I got this as part of an answer to an accepted fare question from the union (CE):
I'm disappointed too.

What I am hearing...


If they deviate their bank you must abbreviate



What a motivational slogan!

The times I've deviated, I've let them buy the scheduled ticket first. Then I've deviated and cancelled that flight once I have an email of the actual fare they paid to get me out of MEM.

When the fare (on the scheduled DH) that they bought has been higher than the accepted, the actual (higher) fare on the purchased ticket I cancelled has gone into my deviation bank.

Usually the accepted and actual match, but when the actual has been higher, they've given it to me in my bank (as long as I let them buy the ticket first). That's probably not the way it's supposed to happen but it's been consistently done that way for me.