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Originally Posted by HOZ
To put things to rest. NY Post estimates 24000 dollars to fly there and back. So it looks like my original estimate is too high.
Taxpayers footed the bill for the big night on the town, which included a total of at least $24,000 for the three aircraft used to ferry the Obamas, aides and reporters to New York and back. Dinner costs and orchestra seat tickets -- at $96.50 apiece -- were paid by the Obamas.
Obama's jet, a Gulfstream 500, served as a more modest Air Force One for the day in place of the customary presidential Boeing 747.
The White House declined to say how much the trip was costing taxpayers.
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I'm fairly certain that that was in the original article YOU posted and I pointed that out about 4 posts in... WOW.