Senator Ian Gorst said that under the terms of the reward scheme corporate organisations such as the States could not collect their own points.
However, they are signed up to a separate British Airways scheme and currently hold around 1.5 million points, enough to pay for around 200 flights to London.
Loyalty points for flights are currently part of a review of States travel and accommodation launched after this newspaper revealed that two senior civil servants – Economic Development chief executive Mike King and Wayne Gallichan from Locate Jersey – had spent almost £13,000 of taxpayers’ money on fully flexible business class tickets to South Africa for a mining conference.
