I love it. If I had that kind of money can you imagine what airline frequent flier miles and premier level membership I would have to use for my own personal trips. Amazing. 
This also applies to legislators and all other government workers who take trips we pay for to go off on boondoggles and keep the mileage. It's time to start using the mileage we pay for to start financing some of these trips we pay for...just saying. I imagine that this would never happen, but why NOT!
I don't want to hear the BS about what we learned on trips will benefit our community or state. If so, lets see some documentation and trip reports about what you did learn and how in fact it does benefit the taxpayers. I use to have my own employees do this and it was a great eye opener and benefited my company and all of the employees.