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Cancel them and charge the fees to the project? They rolled you off, it’s not your fault
I can think of exactly 0 circumstances where you should eat this cost. Don’t let some director’s margin affect your bank account
Why in the world would you book 2 months in advance? Standard is 2-3 weeks.
2-3 weeks out is generally best, if possible. The cheaper fares tend to have 21 and 14 day advance purchase restrictions, and usually most of the corresponding cheaper fare buckets are still available even within 2-3 weeks.
In other words, there’s not much savings booking more than 21 days out, but significant savings booking at least 14 or 21 days out
Talk to your corporate travel department (from KPMG, not whoever it’s outsourced to) and see if they can contact Delta. They should have a relationship manager who can unfuck you/your project
Also, do not end up paying a dime yourself. 100% your project’s cost to eat
Expense all of your tickets. These are all work related so work should pay for them. I would contact the travel department to see if something can be done. If not then project eats the costs.
Exactly
Agree with all the advice but you really should learn from this in future. I book out my hotels 1-2 months in advance because I know the cancellation policy is quite generous. I would never do the same with non-refundable flights. I normally book flights within 5 days of taking it. The only exception is if you have experienced that particular flight being sold out a week in advance.
Call delta first. Call credit company second. If no solutions, bring it up to someone you trust. And then if they have no ideas, ask a higher up you trust.
In the end, hopefully there’s a dept that negotiates with whomever is your credit card supplier.
In a couple of circumstances like this (rolling off and resignation) TSO was able to transfer the ticket to another member on the team to use for future travel on that engagement. Give it a shot, don’t eat the cost!
1. Breath. This may seem like a MASSIVE deal right now, but trust me...it isn’t.
1b. Is it easier to say as a PL that’s a few years in...yes...but lucky for you, the people viewing this expense are equally (probably more) grizzled and probably share my opinion.
2. Expense everything. Unless booking that far out is against policy, you’ll be fine. And even if it is, your case leadership can work it out with travel or worst case scenario eat the cost.
2b. If it makes you feel better, it’d cost them more to replace you if you quit/left due to disillusionment...so "fixing” probably the financial prudent decision on their end as well.
3.Good Luck!
Do you have an email stating to book that far out?
Yep, CYA!
I’m so worried because it’s like 5,000 USD in total 😰
Unfortunately...I don’t have a good relationship with the engagement partner...that’s part of the reason why I left. I’m so screwed now.
No, you’re not. If that well is already poisoned, then you’re not going to do any more damage by expensing the cancellation fees. Take it as a learning experience to not book quite so far out, but seriously - DO NOT PAY THIS OUT OF POCKET
Similar situation happened to me, expense it through the original project code. If they had you book that travel that’s on them. You’ll have a delta credit you can use when traveling for another engagement.
Not sure if it’s 100% protocol but that’s how it worked for me