Posted on Aug 3, 2023
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With so much revolving around ticketing (seat assignments, loyalty upgrades, schedule changes, and delays), why does the govt's travel agency wait until the last minute to issue tickets?
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The real reason is to put the charge to your GTC or the CBA as close as possible to your start travel date. For 90% of travel, (27 out of 30 days) that means it will be on the billing cycle that comes due during or after the trip, as opposed to the billing cycle that comes due prior to your departure.
The goal is for that traveler to have Scheduled Partial Payments, or submit a timely voucher and pay off that ticket charge on the GTC or CBA (which is just a gov Citibank Visa managed by someone else) before it suspends or cancels.
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SGM (Join to see), aha! This makes sense. What would make more sense woudl be for CITI to extend the billing cycle for govt accounts. Interesting. Thanks for the insight, SGM!
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CPT (Join to see) - Citibank is in the business of making money, not losing money just to win a gov't contract.

That, and well over 90% of all TDY, (at least everywhere I worked) is under 30 days anyway.
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