Each weekend when Leon Panetta flies roundtrip from Washington D.C. to Monterey, California it costs around $30,000--you're paying for it, and he's only reimbursing you for the price of a coach seat. Since July, he's been home 14 times reports The Washington Times' Susan Crabtree who also notes:

    Mr. Panetta must reimburse the government for personal travel at the cost of an equivalent commercial coach ticket even though the actual cost of the travel is much higher -- $3,200 a flight hour, according to the Defense Department. Each round trip from Washington to California and back, in an Air Force equivalent of a Gulfstream jet, can add up to more than $30,000.