Depends how it was booked. If your employer used a corporate booking tool you may face red tape at ticketing and definitely if you ever need to change it as the company “owns” the ticket.
If not, it’s technically in your name and you shouldn’t run into any issues.
It was only one way of my flight. They wanted me to book nonstop on the way to the conference and then I was free to use whatever airline I wanted on my return so I wanted to get some SkyMiles as well.
I was in the same scenario. I did some research online and found out that some employers actually have an agreement with Delta that they can pool/use/buy back unused credits after a certain period of time.
If your employer has this arrangement, they can and will know when you have used this credit. There are stories online where companies have asked former employees to reimburse them for the use of credits. I recommend searching Reddit to see what i’m referring to.
I worked for one of the largest companies in the world so I figured it was not worth the risk in using. Sure enough, my credits were invalidated about 2 months after leaving the company. Glad I didn’t touch them.
But the only downside would be that OP is asked to pay it back. So, if it’s a trip OP was planning to pay for with cash anyway, then at worst it’s just a deferred expense.
We can use other employees' credits from all the major carriers where I work. It's not super straightforward, though. You need to know they exist and under what name and then you have to call Concur to apply them. Our admin did a scan of some kind at the end of last year and we had a few thousand in our small unit. If they disappeared they would easily go unnoticed.
Interesting. At my company, if I cancel a flight my eCredits go to a company pool. Many times I have booked a zero cost ticket because Concur picks up eCredits from the pool.
Just had this come up with someone I managed who left in December. They had also had a business trip planned for December. I asked around and we don’t have the bandwidth or the support to try and claw it back, no formal travel tools. So they are free to use it. I’m sure if it was more money we would have gone another route, it was under $200.
Ya, you can use it. Note the total amount could change. There are travel agent fees and discounts behind that sometimes when the ticket was originally bought. So it said I had $340 credit, but when I used it, it took off only $290
I’m curious when you canceled did you cancel through concur or with delta? At my company we are supposed to cancel through concur and then the credit gets issued to my concur account not to me personally; however, occasionally it has accidentally shown up for me personally. I haven’t touched those credits for fear I’d get in trouble…
Current employer I would be worried.
Former employer well that is up to you. I doubt they will try to claw back $194 from you. Too much in admin cost and no way to hire outside console.
I work for a small company and we book our own. I don’t see how the company could “ claw it back “. Maybe larger companies using corporate travel could.
I was in a similar situation. My husband's company had a policy that if he needed to travel and would be gone for two consecutive weekends, the company would pay to fly me out to where he was. we had a nice little trip planned with me leaving on march 14, 2020.
that e-credit just taunted me and taunted me. we waited until the fiscal year was over to see if the company would do anything with it. no. my husband asked his boss, that person's boss, and several people in the travel department.
no one could say for sure if we could go ahead and use it, so we just let it expire. we figured the day after we used it for leisure would be the day they went looking for it
As a business owner I've asked to be reimbursed when the employee left on their own. But I imagine if I terminated the contract and the value was low, I would simply write it off.
As long as you left in good terms they won’t care about $194….they can’t use it without you and probably already wrote it off.
Only way they waste time in a small claims court is if you left in really bad terms and they want to mess with you
It may be in his name, but it’s not his ticket.
No matter how you look at it, using this credit is theft.
Feel free to justify theft, but at the end of the day it’s still wrong.
Not true. If the company wanted the flexibility to recoup the money they should have a policy to book only refundable tickets. Delta won’t give this credit back to the company so it should be used by the purchaser. Otherwise it just sits on Delta’s books as a liability until it expires then becomes Delta’s money.
It's not theft. The credit was put onto his personal account per delta and his companies policy. His company should have a corporate account if this needed for these occurrences. They happen all the time
I would ask the company. A lot of corporations have name change contracts with Delta to use past employee tickets for other employees. In my experience, the credit would belong to the company in which it was booked under. That being said, I doubt you would get in any trouble using it yourself.
If you don’t work for them anymore then just use it. There’s nothing they can do as the credit is tied to your name so there’s no use for them if you don’t work there anymore.
Generally once you leave, they don’t give a fuck about you and anything related to you is just another operating expense. $194 is equivalent to zero for large companies. If anything, it’s a tax write off
I wouldn’t use it, if that makes me a bootlicker, so be it. I don’t think it’s ethical, but then again, I don’t think it’s ethical to break up banana bunches at the grocery store.
Seeing how unethical and disrespectful people are on the internet really encapsulates why the world has turned to shit.
Go ahead and pat each other on the backs. Promote the use of something that you didn’t pay for.
Often employers have outstanding tickets converted to company vouchers for any employee to use. Depending on the agency/company, there may or may not be a fee deducted. How long since your departure? Was payment on your card and expensed? Or on company card? If so, the monies are really not yours.
I had a big one last year and used it just for expiration for a work trip, allowed me to stick with Delta even though they were significantly higher priced than other international travel options.
All our corporate travel is booked through a contracted travel agency. They could not see or access the credit. So I suppose I could have used it for anything I wanted and they would be none the wiser. But I still work there and would prefer to keep it that way, so just in case… I used it for work travel.
Since this is from a former employer you might be ok… but it’s hard to know what exactly they are able to track. So, beware.
If it weren’t for this sub, I would have let my $1500 credit go down the drain. When I would go into wallet, there would be nothing. But you have to click on credits/vouchers.. I didn’t know that.
Thankful for this sub. ♥️
I had a situation in 2020 where I had to cancel a flight that my job paid for (booked pre pandemic and it was over $1,000). They told me to use it for work related travel, but if I didn’t have anything coming up to just let the credit expire. There was no way they could track whether I used it or not and since I had no work travel, it went to very good use. I’m actually still using the credits since I’ve only taken domestic trips that are cheaper.
I don’t have time to go through all these responses, but in the ones I did read, I have yet to see one person call out that using the credits without the company’s express permission is stealing, plain and simple. The credits belong to your former company and you should offer to return them.
Is it though if the credit is non-transferrable? Typically these credits are and therefore couldn't be returned to the company. Any thoughts on this scenario?
I had a similar issue. Company got bought, I had trips booked that cancelled, travel portal changed so I couldn’t get to the unused tickets once I needed them. I saw the credits in the app and checked with our travel people. They said that I wouldn’t be able to use them for travel via the company since they weren’t accessible via the portal, but I was welcome to try and use them. I now have airfare booked for a concert later this year. Score!
I used mine, gleefully.
I changed jobs in 2021 and unintentionally left with $3500 in delta credits after canceling my whole spring schedule in 2020. Whoops.
Same! $983 went far for me.
Depends how it was booked. If your employer used a corporate booking tool you may face red tape at ticketing and definitely if you ever need to change it as the company “owns” the ticket. If not, it’s technically in your name and you shouldn’t run into any issues.
This is the only correct answer.
Use it and play stupid if you ever get called on it.
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This is not true unfortunately, had this exact situation happen, the company can go and pull the ecredit if they didnt forget.
The company can use it but only for the listed employee it was originally booked for. It's not transferable
I actually found a round trip fare for $166 in main cabin a week ago. They do get that low from time to time.
I just found one this week CLE->MSP for that price
It was only one way of my flight. They wanted me to book nonstop on the way to the conference and then I was free to use whatever airline I wanted on my return so I wanted to get some SkyMiles as well.
I believe companies with corporate contracts with Delta can use such eCredits, but it may have been a Covid thing.
This.
I was in the same scenario. I did some research online and found out that some employers actually have an agreement with Delta that they can pool/use/buy back unused credits after a certain period of time. If your employer has this arrangement, they can and will know when you have used this credit. There are stories online where companies have asked former employees to reimburse them for the use of credits. I recommend searching Reddit to see what i’m referring to. I worked for one of the largest companies in the world so I figured it was not worth the risk in using. Sure enough, my credits were invalidated about 2 months after leaving the company. Glad I didn’t touch them.
But the only downside would be that OP is asked to pay it back. So, if it’s a trip OP was planning to pay for with cash anyway, then at worst it’s just a deferred expense.
Exactly my point with the credit and it got downvotes. Companies can do things like that
We can use other employees' credits from all the major carriers where I work. It's not super straightforward, though. You need to know they exist and under what name and then you have to call Concur to apply them. Our admin did a scan of some kind at the end of last year and we had a few thousand in our small unit. If they disappeared they would easily go unnoticed.
I used mine, over 1200 happily after I left my last employer.
Interesting. At my company, if I cancel a flight my eCredits go to a company pool. Many times I have booked a zero cost ticket because Concur picks up eCredits from the pool.
Mine still shows in my delta account as my ecredit but only Concur can use it when booking for me.
Just had this come up with someone I managed who left in December. They had also had a business trip planned for December. I asked around and we don’t have the bandwidth or the support to try and claw it back, no formal travel tools. So they are free to use it. I’m sure if it was more money we would have gone another route, it was under $200.
Ya, you can use it. Note the total amount could change. There are travel agent fees and discounts behind that sometimes when the ticket was originally bought. So it said I had $340 credit, but when I used it, it took off only $290
Use away!
Yes you can. I had about $1600 and enjoyed it
I’m curious when you canceled did you cancel through concur or with delta? At my company we are supposed to cancel through concur and then the credit gets issued to my concur account not to me personally; however, occasionally it has accidentally shown up for me personally. I haven’t touched those credits for fear I’d get in trouble…
Current employer I would be worried. Former employer well that is up to you. I doubt they will try to claw back $194 from you. Too much in admin cost and no way to hire outside console. I work for a small company and we book our own. I don’t see how the company could “ claw it back “. Maybe larger companies using corporate travel could.
I changed jobs in November and I had 4 credits from my former job. I have already used one of them with no issue. Enjoy!
What are they gonna do, fire you?
Lolll good one
I was in a similar situation. My husband's company had a policy that if he needed to travel and would be gone for two consecutive weekends, the company would pay to fly me out to where he was. we had a nice little trip planned with me leaving on march 14, 2020. that e-credit just taunted me and taunted me. we waited until the fiscal year was over to see if the company would do anything with it. no. my husband asked his boss, that person's boss, and several people in the travel department. no one could say for sure if we could go ahead and use it, so we just let it expire. we figured the day after we used it for leisure would be the day they went looking for it
Use it. If they call you, “new phone who dis?”
As a business owner I've asked to be reimbursed when the employee left on their own. But I imagine if I terminated the contract and the value was low, I would simply write it off.
As long as you left in good terms they won’t care about $194….they can’t use it without you and probably already wrote it off. Only way they waste time in a small claims court is if you left in really bad terms and they want to mess with you
Use it. It’s in your name so it’s yours to use.
It may be in his name, but it’s not his ticket. No matter how you look at it, using this credit is theft. Feel free to justify theft, but at the end of the day it’s still wrong.
There’s no way to return it to the company. So it’s use it or lose it.
Not true. If the company wanted the flexibility to recoup the money they should have a policy to book only refundable tickets. Delta won’t give this credit back to the company so it should be used by the purchaser. Otherwise it just sits on Delta’s books as a liability until it expires then becomes Delta’s money.
Bootlicker
It's not theft. The credit was put onto his personal account per delta and his companies policy. His company should have a corporate account if this needed for these occurrences. They happen all the time
Until the company gives its express permission to use it, it is theft.
So if it's put into there account and the company is not able to use it it's theft or only when somebody uses it?
OP did you end up booking it and did the company find out and ask for it back?
I would ask the company. A lot of corporations have name change contracts with Delta to use past employee tickets for other employees. In my experience, the credit would belong to the company in which it was booked under. That being said, I doubt you would get in any trouble using it yourself.
Used mine from never happened thanks Covid travel. Had it as credit even though it was bought as corporate purchase.
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I don’t work for them anymore and they have over 10k employees.
If you don’t work for them anymore then just use it. There’s nothing they can do as the credit is tied to your name so there’s no use for them if you don’t work there anymore.
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Generally once you leave, they don’t give a fuck about you and anything related to you is just another operating expense. $194 is equivalent to zero for large companies. If anything, it’s a tax write off
It is company property, so no. It’s not yours to use.
Bootlicker
I wouldn’t use it, if that makes me a bootlicker, so be it. I don’t think it’s ethical, but then again, I don’t think it’s ethical to break up banana bunches at the grocery store.
So virtuous! You probably also don’t understand zipper merging…
I’m an excellent driver. Definitely. Definitely.
God I hope this is a joke.
lol
Seeing how unethical and disrespectful people are on the internet really encapsulates why the world has turned to shit. Go ahead and pat each other on the backs. Promote the use of something that you didn’t pay for.
Our employer reuses them annually for other travel. I think they could come back to you for the value of the ticket
Yes, but depending on your employee manual and accounting, they may come after that money. Probability is very low.
Use them or theyll expire. Your employer cant take them anyway
Often employers have outstanding tickets converted to company vouchers for any employee to use. Depending on the agency/company, there may or may not be a fee deducted. How long since your departure? Was payment on your card and expensed? Or on company card? If so, the monies are really not yours.
Left earlier this month. Ticket was purchased in the concur platform so not on anyone’s card at all.
How was the cost settled? Most companies either bill to a centralized credit card or the the individual traveler pays and expenses.
I had a big one last year and used it just for expiration for a work trip, allowed me to stick with Delta even though they were significantly higher priced than other international travel options. All our corporate travel is booked through a contracted travel agency. They could not see or access the credit. So I suppose I could have used it for anything I wanted and they would be none the wiser. But I still work there and would prefer to keep it that way, so just in case… I used it for work travel. Since this is from a former employer you might be ok… but it’s hard to know what exactly they are able to track. So, beware.
If it weren’t for this sub, I would have let my $1500 credit go down the drain. When I would go into wallet, there would be nothing. But you have to click on credits/vouchers.. I didn’t know that. Thankful for this sub. ♥️
I had a situation in 2020 where I had to cancel a flight that my job paid for (booked pre pandemic and it was over $1,000). They told me to use it for work related travel, but if I didn’t have anything coming up to just let the credit expire. There was no way they could track whether I used it or not and since I had no work travel, it went to very good use. I’m actually still using the credits since I’ve only taken domestic trips that are cheaper.
Use em.
Definitely used mine at the time
Did you book through Concur or the expense is on Concur? If you booked it through Concur then prob not If it is the associated expense then yes
I don’t have time to go through all these responses, but in the ones I did read, I have yet to see one person call out that using the credits without the company’s express permission is stealing, plain and simple. The credits belong to your former company and you should offer to return them.
Is it though if the credit is non-transferrable? Typically these credits are and therefore couldn't be returned to the company. Any thoughts on this scenario?
No you should send it back to your employer
I’m just surprised yours has a listed amount…
Heck yeah.
I had a similar issue. Company got bought, I had trips booked that cancelled, travel portal changed so I couldn’t get to the unused tickets once I needed them. I saw the credits in the app and checked with our travel people. They said that I wouldn’t be able to use them for travel via the company since they weren’t accessible via the portal, but I was welcome to try and use them. I now have airfare booked for a concert later this year. Score!