Reply #40: sure... it's always nice to be face to face... [View All]

[ixion]

don't get me wrong... if your company is flush with cash, fly all you want. But when you've just come to the taxpayers, hat-in-hand asking for a bailout, lest you perish, it seems to me that you could fly coach, rather than a private jet, and limit those trips to what is absolutely necessary.

Travel bans are not unheard of in the corporate world, many companies who have not received taxpayer money are tightening their belts. It seems to me that the banks should be doing that as well.

If I were a potential client, and I knew the company that I was dealing with was insolvent, and the exec showed up in a private jet, I would be wary of allowing this person to do much of anything with my money.