Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Not too sure about this. The myth is far removed from reality. Yes, there are a few here and there that drink their fair share, but most do not. Most realize that they have to be up the next morning back at the mind numbing task of sitting though another 10+ hrs of a MEC meeting, or a middle seat across country after the meeting is over.
If we are going to publish this data it needs to be meaningful. To me this just looks like a lot of numbers.
* Of note there are many events that are not meetings that have hospitality suites; for example the Professional Standards meeting, and many Flight Operations Personnel are there as well. It is necessary to have a venue like this, because frankly that is where all of the work gets done.
I basically agree with you ACL. I know it costs tons of money to run these meetings and they need to be run in a way that allows all those involved to do a good job. I don't have a problem with them staying in nice places with the resources that they need to get stuff done. I give them 1.95% of my money and I basically don't care what they do with it, as long as they are doing things to protect my job and increase my quality of life. The only thing I can see that is potentially out of line with these expenses would be the amount spent for food and from past experience I think the large amount is due to the cost of alcohol. Other than that, I don't think the costs are out of line.