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B-207496 1 (1982-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadksc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 •E A A,4 fITHE COMPTROLLER UENITEL/TATE DECISION .OF THE Uf+ITEO STATES WASH INGTON. 0. C. 20549 VNTF FILE: B-207496 MATTER OF: DIGEST: DATE: November 9, 1982 Leland G. Jackson Although travel orders reflected higher estimated cost based on common carrier transportation using terminal at Melbourne, Florida, employee who traveled by privately owned vehicle to and from Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, as matter of personal pref- erence is entitled to mileage reim- bursement limited to lower cost airfare based on travel by way of airport at Orlando, Florida. Where two air terminals serve same origin or destination, constructive cost reimbursement should be based on routing by way of air terminal giving Government benefit of lower transportation costs. The Accounting and Finance Officer, Defense Depot Memphis, Defense Logistics Agency, requests our decision on whether an employee who used his privately owned vehicle, in lieu of common carrier, for temporary duty travel may be reimbursed on a round-trip mileage basis in an amount not to exceed the estimated travel cost indi- cated on his travel orders. Notwithstanding the higher estimated cost indicated in his orders, the employee's mileage reimbursement may not exceed the constructive cost of air carrier transportation that would have been pro- vided by the transportation officer. The request was forwarded to us by the Department of Defense, Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee, under Control No. 82-11. Mr. Leland G. Jackson, an employee of the Defense Property Disposal Region, Memphis, was directed to travel from Lexington, Kentucky, to Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, and return for the purpose of attending a work- shop. His travel orders authorized common carrier air travel and reflected an estimated travel cost of $394. This estimate was furnished by the passenger travel office, Defense Depot Memphis, and was based on the U,3P'7 o1q -

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