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B-184136 1 (1976-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddep0001 and id is 1 raw text is: NIL; F kL G FILE: B-184136 MATTER DIGEST: OF: Use of foreign flag air carrier during, travel on official business (1) In appropriate instances where questions of payments to be made by a Governmental depart- ment are presented to the Comptroller General for decision by a departmental official who is not the department head, the questions will be decided and transmitted to the department head as if he had submitted them under 31 U.S.C. 74 (1970). DATE: M 1( '/* ug'o VL (2) Departnent of State employee may not use a foreign flag air carrier during travel while performing temporary duty in order to use excess foreign currency where an American flag air carrier is available even Lhough the amount expended on the foreign flag carrier is only a small fractio Of Lie aoun at could have been expendcd in excess foreign currency for the entire trip. The Inspector General of Foreign Assistance, Department of State, has requested an advance decision as to whether an excep- tion may be made to B-138942, June 17, 1975, proscribing the use of foreign flag air carriers that can be paid for in excess foreign currency where American flag air carriers are available. Since requests for decisions in matters such as this should be applied for by the head of a department or establishment of the Government, the submission will be treated as a request for an advance decision by the Secretary of State and answered accordingly. 55 Comp. Gen. 52 (1975); 41 Comp. Gen. 767 (1962). Two of the Inspector General's inspectors departed Washington, D.C., to make an overseas inspection with five official stops at Paris, Tunis, Cairo, Rangoon and Hong Kong, flying across the Atlantic Ocean and returning across the Pacific Ocean. Pan American World Airways, Inc. (Pan Am) officials have stated that they would accept payment in excess foreign currency for a ticket they would issue covering the entire trip as long as Pan An is used over both of these oceans. T H EC C;FAP T F!0LL a P C E d - RA L O3F THM UNITEL) 5TATEE-S \NASH:NGTON, D.C. 2054.6

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