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Look what brazilian politicians do and you will be shocked how this train endevour is so tamed it would not even be news around here. The brazilian president spend R$773 millions this year on travelling alone ($157.6 millions in US dollars)

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How do you even manage that? If you fly first class every hour of every day that would still be impossible. So I guess the man charters entire airplanes?

It probably includes staff travelling costs, security etc.

Flying first class is for peasants.

They fly a official plane and bring a lot of people with it. There was a plan to replace the place, but for the time it got backlashed so hard they put the idea aside, for now at least.

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