Travelling for business - Points + Pay fault?

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danmar

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I have a business/ business rewards account linked to my FF profile. When making a booking there is a tab you can check to say I'm travelling for xx business and sometimes this offers member deals/ discount on selected fares. Problem I've come across is that whenever I check this tab it does not give me the option to make the booking a points plus pay booking?? Anyone else have this issue?
 
I have a business/ business rewards account linked to my FF profile. When making a booking there is a tab you can check to say I'm travelling for xx business and sometimes this offers member deals/ discount on selected fares. Problem I've come across is that whenever I check this tab it does not give me the option to make the booking a points plus pay booking?? Anyone else have this issue?
Haven't tried but usually avoid using points for work as essentially devaluing them by my marginal tax rate.
Understand people using when employers only allow Y in longhaul
 
Haven't tried but usually avoid using points for work as essentially devaluing them by my marginal tax rate.
Understand people using when employers only allow Y in longhaul
Should clarify that its my own business so all travel that I do is effectively self funded!
Issue I have is that a planned trip in business class has no 'cheap' seats left for purchase however selecting the "travelling for business" tab shows business rewards member savings for the tickets of circa $800. I would like to be able to utilise that saving and use points plus pay to further reduce the cost however I dont get that option... If I retry the same booking and don't select the "travelling for business" tab I (obviously) don't get the business rewards reduced fare however I can do points plus pay...
 
This is really a moot point for most people on here, because in general, you should never use points plus pay - it is a very poor use of the value of your QFF points. I would only do it if you were seriously cash flow poor and have no other way to stump up that $800 (or whatever the difference in fare is). Ideally, save the points for a classic reward or classic upgrade of some sort.
 
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This is really a moot point for most people on here, because in general, you should never use points plus pay - it is a very poor use of the value of your QFF points. I would only do it if you were seriously cash flow poor and have no other way to stump up that $800 (or whatever the difference in fare is). Ideally, save the points for a classic reward or classic upgrade of some sort.
Thanks for that.
Getting off topic and not finding out if anyone else has the same error but I guess some of us value points differently! Certainly not wanting to sound arrogant but I pretty much treat my points like free money - I earn loads of them through everyday spending particularly business expenses and they cost me nothing to accumulate. If I can buy a business fare (and earn points and status credits) and use 300k points to reduce the cost of the fare by $2k then for me that is points well used! Sounds like many wont agree but as I said perhaps some of us have different views on the value of points!
 
I tried a dummy booking and did get a P+P slider on a PC today (had trouble booking anything on a phone as errored out). Unfortunately I have exported all my QBR points so can't confirm it works.
I must say if I absolutely had to use points for business I would book Classic rewards on expensive days.
You are of course free to spend as you wish but building in any lost tax rebate you seem to be saving less than 0.5c per point using them for P+P
 
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