So the German government laid out some data from 2018 today. For those who don't remember....about twenty-five years ago, when the federal folks made the decision move the Bundestag and x-number of government departments from Bonn to Berlin....some agencies and departments were allowed to stay in Bonn. The discussion at the time was that these people had settled in....bought properties....and had kids in school. They were happy in Bonn.
How would this division work? This was never laid out in public view.
Today, the Germans discussed the arrangement....for 2018 by itself, 230,000 round-trip tickets were purchased and used....to bring x-number of Berlin folks to Bonn, or Bonn folks to Berlin. Airline tickets....virtually all of them. If you do the math and figure five days a week, there's roughly 850 folks per day who made a trip one way, or another. Did they stay over night? Well, that would include the hotel and taxi ride. You might have some government 'boss' who made five trips a month, with a minimum of one night in a hotel for each trip....so you can figure he is costing you around a thousand Euro a month on travel.
The need for face-to-face contact? No one really talks about that, or the use of video-chat.
If you halted this practice? Around Koln (the local airport near Bonn), this would bring up the topic of 150-plus flights that occur, and if the majority of these are full of government workers.
Serious waste of money? Probably. But go try to halt this and see how upset folks get. Just on affairs alone, there's probably 300 individuals making the trip just to see their 'friend'.
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