SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

Take back government frequent flyer miles, and hotel points. Let the miles, and points go directly back to the government. Use the miles for government travel, and the points for government lodging.

Regarding miles, the government pays more money for travel, so the government should get more miles per trip. These miles can be banked for each Agency and used solely for the purpose of federal travel.

This won't be... more »

Establish (where possible) an account for business rewards travel that allows us (the U.S. goverment) to use airline travel miles to book free business related trips without taking frequent flyer miles away from the individual traveler's frequent flyer account(s). All business travel could be booked with the miles credited to the business rewards account. Then, we could use the business rewards account to book free flights.... more »

The case to halt minting the Presidential Dollar Coin is well documented in the media. http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137394348/-1-billion-that-nobody-wants

and

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/13/137795995/how-frequent-fliers-exploit-a-government-program-to-get-free-trips


First, the minting Presidential Series dollars has cost $300 million since it was mandated by Congress in 2005. Minting money like this is... more »

The very nature of the Federal Government requires its employees to travel frequently, and sometimes long distances to do business around the country and globe. Unfortunately, most domestic agencies feel heavily constrained in their travel budgets. Oftentimes, employees must pass opportunities to work in the field with constituents due to travel budget constraints.

Sub-departments in each agency should be allowed to... more »