Earlier this year, I covered how executives at Denver International Airport (DEN) received criticism for spending $165K on a trip to Madrid to attend a conference intended to attract more airlines to the airport, including one executive spending $19K on his business class ticket.
As you’d expect, this was quite a scandal, and it just seems like no effort was put into controlling costs. Executives at the airport have faced an ethics investigation over this trip, and the results of that are now in.
The board said it was “appalled by both the amount of funds that were expended for this conference and by Mr. Washington’s seemingly cavalier attitude in responding to this complaint.” Washington told the board that he “had no idea of the cost of those tickets,” and that they were compliant with the travel policy for flights of eight hours or longer.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
