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LCD-76-214 1 (1976-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaapd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,, 1 ... I'll, UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE q q 746 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION 1 976 B-133025 The Honorable The Secretary of Defense Dear Mr. Secretary: As a follow-on to our review of fuel savings and other benefits by diverting passengers from chartered to scheduled overseas flights, we reviewed the Military Airlift Command's ? (MAC's) use of chartered cargo aircraft. In examining an 8-month period 1/ we found 42 instances in which it appeared MAC could have dsed the carrier's regularly scheduled com- mercial service instead of chartered aircraft. We estimate the Department of Defense (DOD) could have saved as much as $425,000 by shipping this cargo on scheduled flights.. In addition, the airlines would have saved about $172,000 in operating costs, including about one million gallons of jet fuel. BACKGROUND MAC contracts with commercial air carriers as needed for supplemental airlift of cargo from MAC's domestic aerial ports to overseas military terminals. Rates for this serv- ice are established by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). MAC contracts move cargo in planeload lots on a charter ba- sis and, in some instances, in less than planeload lots in blocked space on scheduled flights. Cargo moving on scheduled flights is palletized at the MAC aerial port by Air Force personnel and then turned over to the contract carrier. The contract carrier is respon- sible for draying the cargo to the commercial air terminal at origin and for deli.vering the cargo from the commercial terminal to the appropriate military terminal in the over- seas area. 1/Information for July 1974 was not available from the MAC computer. Information for the final quarter of fiscal year 1975 was not used because of abnormal workloads re- lated to the Vietnamese refugee airlift--Project New Life--thus the use of the 8-month period. 9 1k07 0 LCD-76-214

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