Speaking strictly for the BOD meetings, past practice was that they would only stay at UNIONIZED hotels. In many cities that limited the choices.

I also remember that the BOD portion of the expenses was picked up by ALPA National and not by the individual MECs. Maybe that has changed recently, but that is how it was 15-20 years ago. Most of the major MECs tacked their MEC meetings on the front end of the BOD meeting for convenience. The MEC would cover that portion of the cost prior to the start of the BOD meeting.

Now some of the non-BOD meetings looked kind of expensive, but there is no cost breakout specific enough to identify the reason. I believe that was done on purpose.

I guess none (LEC20 reps included) of us is making a "reasonable" request to see FPL data in its entirety. We are all just unreasonable ingrates for wanting to see how our dues money is spent. FWIW I do bbelieve the Council 20 reps are trying their best to get the data to the pilots without violating any of the "policies." Even the policies we can't seem to find in writing.

*** REPOST FROM EARLIER IN APRIL 2011 BELOW ***