High-Flying Airport Overseers

Some members of the authority that overseas Reagan National and Dulles International airports have spent large amounts of public money in recent years traveling to international conferences at fancy resorts. They have flown first-class, charged for limousines, expensive meals and alcohol, records show.

[Airport authority management, current board]

SOURCE: Staff reports | GRAPHIC: Dita Smith and Cristina Rivero, The Washington Post - October 13, 2008

This Story Board Adopts Travel Policy Article \| Members of the Washington region's airport authority agreed yesterday to "make every effort" to travel more economically as part of new guidelines meant to address concerns about their costly international business trips. Airport Board's Travel Spending Has Few Limits High-Flying Airport Overseers This Story Airport Board to Vote on Travel Policy Article \| The governing body of publicly owned Dulles International and Reagan National airports is scheduled to consider new travel guidelines today in response to scrutiny of dozens of international trips and luxurious hotel accommodations that board members have taken in recent years with little oversight... Airport Board's Travel Spending Has Few Limits High-Flying Airport Overseers		TOOLBOX E-Mail This Save/Share + Digg Facebook Reddit Twitter myspace SOURCE: Staff reports \| GRAPHIC: Dita Smith and Cristina Rivero, The Washington Post - October 13, 2008 ¬es=Some members of the authority that overseas Reagan National and Dulles International airports have spent large amounts of public money in recent years traveling to international conferences at fancy resorts. They have flown first-class, charged for limousines, expensive meals and alcohol, records show." onclick="if ( typeof otto != 'undefined' ) { }" onmouseover="changebg2('delicious')" onmouseout="resetbg2('delicious')" target="new">del.icio.us SOURCE: Staff reports \| GRAPHIC: Dita Smith, Cristina Rivero, The Washington Post - October 13, 2008 \'),\'newstrust\'+(new Date()).getMilliseconds(),\'dependent=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,alwaysRaised=yes,status=yes,directories=yes,location=yes,menubar=yes,toolbar=yes,width=430,height=750,modal=no\'));ntw.focus();'" onclick="if ( typeof otto != 'undefined' ) { }" onmouseover="changebg2('newstrust')" onmouseout="resetbg2('newstrust')">NewsTrust Stumble It! COMMENT 0 Comments Your browser's settings may be preventing you from commenting on and viewing comments about this item. See instructions for fixing the problem. Discussion Policy CLOSE Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post. Who's Blogging » Links to this graphic
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