Our MEC members all fly regularly. Same with the negotiating committee. I recently flew with the Sec/Treas. who was doing fly back. Basically flying instead of staying at home and crediting his pay to our budget. He was not out of touch as he was instrumental in the envoy pay sheet that came from our well documented issues with paycomp. Funderburk is the flow guy.....definitely not out of touch as we always are fighting a battle on that front it seems. Sam is on top of the rest and I wouldn't put him in the out of touch category.