How Does the GB Travel?

[TrueTomHarley]

How does the GB travel, @JW Insider? Do they go first class or passenger. Ever via private jet? It would hardly do for one of them to be dragged off the plane like that Vietnamese doctor was, especially if it meant skipping the Lagos convention they were due to address.

[JW Insider]

After about 1995, I have had no first-hand knowledge about their travel arrangements. Up until then, there was a lot of first-class travel in the 1970s through the mid-1990s, but it was always said to be "gifted" and did not come through the general donations to the worldwide work. Also, it depended completely on where they were going, and if a congregation or wealthy brother sponsored the travel. There were some supposed scandals in the mid 1990's too of GB taking expensive "luxury" vacations, but these were "gifted."

I traveled with Brother Schroeder to Europe and he flew first-class while I took Freddy Laker to London for $99. But I also took first-class trains and hovercraft between many destinations: London-Paris-Madrid-Barcelona-Rome-Corfu-Athens-Milan-Innsbruck-Berne-Wiesbaden-Hamburg and Brother Schroeder almost always had a small plane flight or even a car arranged between some of these same locations. Not a private plane, although this happens in Australia and Alaska and parts of Africa in places where private planes (not private jets) are more practical than cars.

[Matthew9969]

Maybe their new luxury compound will have a private supersonic jet underneath the basketball court.

[Evacuated]

I know brothers in the UK that were able to use air travel, even one via Concord, to conduct theocratic business in the USA. This was because they acted as couriers for a business and did not have to pay fares.