Posted on 10/02/2007 5:05:44 PM PDT by ninonitti
When Congress has their collective heads jammed in the trough, should we be surprised that the underlings also have a feeling of entitlement?
Geez, 14 hours in a coach seat? I’m glad my company springs for business class on all international flights.
Ever try to get a coach class seat on an international flight that close to the departure date?
I didn't see anything in this report that verified that coach wasn't already full when the order to travel was issued.
This makes me strongly suspect that the analysts knew the truth yet felt compelled to make Senator Grassley happy.
He's that way you know.
In real life these clowns might actually have to payback the difference.
Have I got some stories to tell.
I’ve never understood the idea of paying for business or first-class seats. Many times the price is almost double a coach seat for nearly an identical product.
If you’re making $100K per year, that’s usually a full-day’s pay to sit in a more comfortable chair for a few hours. Why?
For the most part, given the demographics of where executive or top level administrative or technical jobs are located (the "federal reserve cities") that means they are traveling on the most heavily traveled air routes in the country, or from the US to overseas locations.
Getting a coach class seat under those conditions when you are close (just a few days) to departure is exceedingly difficult.
I usually worked things so that anyone I brought to Washington had 2 to 3 weeks advance notice so that wasn't a problem for us.
Only the best of everything for our oligarchs.
A few years back Air Tran offered business class upgrades for $35 to Fed. employees. The employees should have to pay for it out of their own pocket if they upgrade.
I wouldn’t mind if all the tickets were First Class, so long as the tickets were one way. Out
I was hoping this was about those wasted trips by Nancy Pelozi and her ilk recently to the Middle East.
About "upgrading"? USPS employees get to keep all the travel bennies they earn by flying ~ always did. The federales got that late in life.
Lowly government employees who work for a salary rarely get (or desire) a chance to steal.
This is what happens when you have people who largely cannot be fired spending money that isn’t theirs, they waste it.
Your company is treating you well. I flew to Europe recently on gov’t travel. The last 4 or 5 hours were almost unbearable. I’m 6’2” and those seats just aren’t designed for 6’2”. If I have to do it again, one way or another I’m going to fly business class.
When I was interning on the Hill in 1991, most members of Congress (at least those who'd been in for more than a term or two) flew BC or FC, but only paid coach out of the office budget. You rack up a lot of miles when you're flying back to the district nearly every weekend.
When I was interning on the Hill in 1991, most members of Congress (at least those who'd been in for more than a term or two) flew BC or FC, but only paid coach out of the office budget. You rack up a lot of miles when you're flying back to the district nearly every weekend.
Every Friday afternoon there are several flights to LaGuardia filled with Dem politicians going back to New York City.
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