Texas Watchdog exposes Aggie waste

Texas Watchdog - March 26, 201

FREQUENT FLIERS ON PUBLIC PLANES: TEXAS A&M OFFICIALS RACK UP MILLION-DOLLAR BILL ANNUALLY ON SPECIALLY HIRED FLIGHTS

To make a meeting on the morning of May 27, 2008 at Fort Hood, then-A&M President Elsa Murano boarded the university's Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200 at Easterwood Airport in College Station for a flight of 113 miles and a roundtrip cost of $1,466. Two days later, to attend a scheduled hearing, Murano got on the same plane for a 106-mile morning hop to Austin. The cost was $1,173. That fall, a department head and two associate directors used a school plane to get to El Paso for an agriculture meeting. The roundtrip flight was billed at $5,685 or $1,895 a person.

Read it here: http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2010/03/frequent-fliers-on-public-planes-am-officials-rack-up/1269445557.story

So the Aggies are jetsetting at taxpayer expense??

Bottom line: while student tuitions are skyrocketing and taxpayers are tightening their belts, Aggies are in la-la land jet setting the state at taxpayers expense. This is outrageous!