Yep. When I was working at AWS ProServe (consulting department), until mid 2022, I could just tell my manager I need to fly out to a customer site and AWS would pay for it. The same if I wanted to meet some of ny team in person we could just all fly out to an office.
That all changed later where we had to get approval from our skip skip manager for travel on the company dime.
That all changed later where we had to get approval from our skip skip manager for travel on the company dime.