"Daimler Benz's Hyatt code (99800) is for the Mercedes-Benz parent company. Daimler has major presence in Stuttgart, Germany and significant US operations in Alabama (Mercedes-Benz US Manufacturing). Hyatt's European enforcement pattern applies: Park Hyatt Frankfurt/Munich/Stuttgart carry higher verification risk. FlyerTalk's Hyatt thread: "In Europe and some parts of Asia, proof has been requested 100% of the time." US domestic Hyatt Place: essentially never checked. Daimler later restructured as Mercedes-Benz Group AG."

"I agree with that, but I do think that Hyatt would garner a solid amount of business by offering a FT discount code. If Hyatt did this they would get some very good press here on FT and to my knowledge be the first large hotel/airline to offer such a discount to us. If the discount was decent enough...something greater than AAA discount, they would probably steal some biz from the competition. I belong to other forums where corporations do offer forum members a unique discount. Of course in the matter of minutes that code would be plastered all over fatwallet and slickdeals and no longer be unique."

"I also see a problem where (I know our company has for certain properties) Last Room Available rates which come in at the corporate rate; its not for all properties but we do have a list of those where if there is one room left, they have to give it to us at the corporate rate; other places is a certain number go at Corp rate 1 then it goes to corp rate 2 etc"