Your Business + Frequent Flyer Miles = Many Benefits!

There are many incentives available to those that take advantage of frequent flyer programs. Almost any airline in todays day and age is offering some type of benefit program to keep their customers loyal to their airline. Taking advantage of these programs can allow people, and businesses, to accumulate something rather valuable to them free travel. Every year more and more people decide to travel by air, and it only makes sense that they would be willing to do anything possible to save some money, and add more comfort to their journeys. This is why many businesses, as well as people, are looking into frequent flyer programs. Although, the million dollar question remains what benefits are available to a business?

Big Benefit #1 Tax Free

Many of the companies, to date, that utilize these frequent flyer miles are not necessarily paying taxes on them. Frequent flyer miles are not usually attached to any one particular business in most cases. Instead, the person that is flying is the person whose name is utilized. For example, if you have a John Smith in your office that is flying 4000 miles a month, he should be earning plenty of frequent flyer miles. This gives employers an incentive to have their employees travel around the country and take care of the company business. After all of that additional flying, Mr. Smith has plenty of air miles that he can then redeem to take his family on a vacation without the worry of expensive airfare.

Benefits Just Keep Rolling In

There are other exciting benefits to using frequent flyer programs as well. Benefits can include seat selection priority, and upgrading from economy class to first class free of charge. And what if you needed Mr. Smith to make a meeting cross country and the only flight available was full? Being a part of the frequent flyer program as an elite member can also allow you the ability to bump an economy passenger and take their seat on that flight. That benefit could really come in handy with meetings happening on extremely short notice. Also, as the business owner these frequent flyer miles can be added to your specific account allowing you to personally save on air travel for your employees or yourself.

These frequent flyer programs are and intricate part of business if you are looking to save money transporting employees cross country. There are various airlines that are offering many different program options including the benefits mentioned above, but also many others. The main goal is to get enrolled in one of these programs and attain elite status as soon as possible with the purchasing of all those expensive airline tickets on a regular basis.

Shelly Walther has written several articles on travel and leisure and enjoys traveling herself. She has been to many places including Norway, her most recent adventure. More of her work can be found at http://www.FieldTravel.com.Aigneis Blog89466
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