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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Lib Dem transport spokesman Norman Baker said that at a time when the BBC should be doing all it could to give good value to fee-payers, the figures are "staggering".

He said: "The BBC's own guidelines say that flying business class should only happen in 'exceptional circumstances'. It is hard to believe that there can be £3 million-worth of exceptional circumstances in a single year.

"Licence fee-payers have a right to assume their money is not being splashed around frivolously. BBC bosses must make sure that, where possible, their staff use trains rather than planes and that when they must fly, they get the best value for money possible."

The BBC spent £10.4 million on flights from April 2007 to March 2008 - £3.1 million of which was spent on business or first class seats.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7594933.stm

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Have they heard of cheaper seats and lecturing us on climate change? Laughing

BBC are also wasting Tax Payers money like it's going out of fashion. I think the Government needs to start too make the funds harder to come by.