On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:32:42AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 21/07/11 at 04:56 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > I'd certainly be curious to hear more about the logistics of how Canonical > > does > > that for UDS. Is Canonical's travel agency also used for attendees who are > > not > > asking Canonical to pay for their travel? How does the process work for > > whoever > > uses the designated agency, and what benefits come from that arrangement?
> I've only used the travel agency once. It was very simple. I used an > online search engine to decide on the flights I wanted to take, sent an > email to the travel agency, and got the electronic tickets back. The > main benefit is that there's no need to pay the travel costs myself and > wait for reimbursement. I assume that from Canonical's POV, it also > makes thing simpler since it's likely that there's only one large bill > from the travel agency to handle. FWIW, corporate travel agencies also bring rather steep per-booking fees (it's how they stay in business, after all), so there's a tradeoff to be evaluated there. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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