BBC spends £1.3m on flights between London and Manchester over two years

Cost of rail travel for more than 100 managers has also risen since relocation to MediaCity in Salford QuaysThe suspicion that British Airways and Virgin Trains would be among the beneficiaries of the BBC's move to Salford appears to be born out by figures on travel costs published this week.In the past two years the BBC has spent £1.3m on flights for staff shuttling between London and Manchester, according to a response to a Freedom of Information request.The cost of staff rail travel for more than 100 senior managers has also increased significantly across the BBC as a whole since the corporation began moving some 2,300 post to its new northern base in the MediaCity development at Salford Quays in May 2011.Rail travel cost the BBC £29,847 in the three months to the end of June 2010, rising to £47,358 in the same period the following year, during which corporation departments began moving from London to Salford, according to the corporation's latest quarterly travel and expenses figures released this week. The figures are for the BBC as a whole, with the cost of trains between London and Manchester not specified.In the three months to the end of June 2012, by which time the Salford move was completed, rail travel costs were £45,905, rising to £50,146 for the same quarter this year.Nearly 600 staff from the BBC Children's, Learning, Sport and Future, Media and Technology departments, Radio 5 Live and BBC Breakfast relocated from London to Salford."The BBC is a 24-hour... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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