[philmont] Travel Question for Council HA Chairs

Don't bother dealing with the (friendly) employees at the airline 800 number -- they're reading from a script. Get on the airline's corporate website and find the phone number for HQ and explain the situation to their Director of Marketing. If that doesn't solve the issue, call the CEO. You'd be amazed at the service you can get by going to the top of large corporations sometimes.
--Bob Schaettle
Rochester, MN

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  From: Dr. Bob Klein<mailto:drbob@troop111.org>
  To: philmont List Member<mailto:philmont@troop47.com>
  Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:46 AM
  Subject: [philmont] Travel Question for Council HA Chairs

  I believe you can get a one time or short-time use credit card for
  problems like this. It's specific for this purpose - short expiration
  date, very limited transactions, that sort of thing. It may need to be
  pre-paid to get the kind of value you'll need - most such cards have
  fairly low limits. That means the Council will need to get on the stick
  to pre-cut a cashier's check for whatever is needed.

  troop6webmaster@comcast.net<mailto:troop6webmaster@comcast.net> wrote:
> I ran into a new one - Our group travel for NT will be with an Airline
> that only accepts credit cards for group travel ... Up until now the
> airlines we've done business would accept a council check, and I'm told
> by our SE and Council President that it is against BSA policy for a
> council to have a credit card with an exception allowed for gas cards.
> So the question, has any other council HA guy or gal on this list been
> in this position and if so how did you deal with it. It appears that
> the only way out will be for a volunteer, probably the Council President
> or I to use a personal card and get re-embursed from council, however
> that has its own set of issues.
>
> YIS
> Jim
>

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