"Peter Mathieson, the vice-principal and chancellor of the ­University of Edinburgh, took business-class flights to destinations including Hong Kong, New York and Milan.

A freedom of information request found that the principal spent a ­total of £31,861 on flights in only eight months between October 2023 and June 2024, with more than 90% of the booking fees being spent on business-class tickets."

by jamie050

5 comments

  1. Why fly frugally when you can just make your staff redundant?

  2. Many businesses allow business travel for longer journeys so that staff arrive fresher. This is half a story since we don’t k ow the purpose of the travel or if it was successful.

  3. And I’ll bet the ‘normal’ staff have to book the cheapest journeys in Scum Class on the very day the tickets become available, to save every possible penny. And the booking system doesn’t understand or accept airmiles and railcards, so your company is being striped for the full fare anyway. You have to use the company portal for compliance reasons.

    If travelling at 5am is cheaper than going at 9pm the night before and staying in a Travelodge, you will travel at 5am.

    That’s how it worked in my last private sector job anyway. Eventually they relented and let people book ‘better’ tickets if there was a promotion on (sometimes First is cheaper than Standard etc.)

    Corporate travel can be a right hoot.

  4. If only these ‘very important people’ had access to ms teams…

  5. Shocking

    Reminiscint of pre-revolution France where kings and queens lived and dined in opulent luxury while the pesants starved outside.

    Bit like modern-day C-E-Os

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