Limit Nationals to Within USMS Boundaries?

Also many masters swimmers are not rich. To me, flying to PR has to cost double what Florida costs, or oregon, or Indy. Anyone in the airline industry? I just did a quick comparison using Travelocity: Las Vegas to San Juan vs Las Vegas to Miami in early November. Cheapest fare (roundtrip) to PR was $386, cheapest to Miami was $272. So the difference is significant, though not double. Of course, the question here is not about the PR bid itself but whether to discount out of hand all such bids in the future. Personally, I believe that any such bid -- whether to PR or the VI or Canada or whatever -- should be considered on its own merits. I very much doubt there will be many of them and I daresay the natural tendency would be to vote for competing bids within the continental US unless there are compelling reasons (such as the lack of a competing bid!). The move to ban them seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem.

Also many masters swimmers are not rich. To me, flying to PR has to cost double what Florida costs, or oregon, or Indy. Anyone in the airline industry? I just did a quick comparison using Travelocity: Las Vegas to San Juan vs Las Vegas to Miami in early November. Cheapest fare (roundtrip) to PR was $386, cheapest to Miami was $272. So the difference is significant, though not double. Of course, the question here is not about the PR bid itself but whether to discount out of hand all such bids in the future. Personally, I believe that any such bid -- whether to PR or the VI or Canada or whatever -- should be considered on its own merits. I very much doubt there will be many of them and I daresay the natural tendency would be to vote for competing bids within the continental US unless there are compelling reasons (such as the lack of a competing bid!). The move to ban them seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem.