Network Rail bosses travelling on business spent £1.3million on UK flights in the last year because it was cheaper than taking the train.

Employees of the public sector body took 8,353 flights from April 2013 to March 2015 and spent £1.1million on 2,907 international flights.

The figures, revealed following a Freedom of Information Request submitted by The Sun, show around 90 per cent of the domestic flights were to Scotland.

Reported by the Evening Standard. You can read the full story here.

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.