Originally Posted by
birder
But wasn't it a lifetime perk? Besides, National shouldn't have raised salaries when they took it away. Close-to-free personal flying is not a normal "perk" for politicians and there was no need to "reimburse" the politicians for it anyway.
I think those that are still alive and have been out of parliament for ~10 years still have access to the perk as it was part of their contract and they missed out on other areas that MP's have today. I could be wrong though.