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B-191284 1 (1978-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgkw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I K I 'I, I t I 'Si 4' 1* - **,~ I S 5~~ 0~ d A' * , ~, THCEPCCMPTROLLUR GENERAL 4j, Ir OTHE UNITED WSTATm WASHINbTONe .:3. a 4.4 *0 FILE: 4B-91284 MATTER Or: I I DIGE ,' V DATE: Sqptwmber 22, 1973 Harold R. Jordan - Travel e4penses - Escort for minor child traveling by air IT: The wife and.two.16 month-old twins of,%a trans- f'erred Ntjonal 'Park Service emploje6tr'aveled ,'4'rt of.r ti. distance between the 'old and new stationg prior to the employee's travel. Airline regulations required an adlt to acbt.pany each child, under 2 years of age'. Althouh the employee - wa ot specifically authorized air fare for an at(.ebdant to accompany the secohd twin, he may be reimbursed for such air fare since it may be attributed to the child. M.K. Farnsworth, B-183563, May 4, 1976. Tais action concerns thq request o' Ms. Arlene Tatigian, Regio 1 Finance Officer, Nation'al'Park Service, Department of the Interior, for' 'adecision whiihr Hirold,1R. Jordan, an employee of the Service, may be reimlutsed the airline fare of-an attendant for 9 .o' Mr. Jordan's 16 month2old Win sdns. The travel expense was incured incident to Mr'. Jordan's transfer from Salina, Kansas, to Fredricksburg, Virginia, effective June 19, 1977. JMr. Jordan. was authoized traVel for himself and transportation for his immediate rfamily by common carrier or privately owned vehicle. Mrs Jordan and the 16 month-bld twins traveled part of the distance bet een',the old and new stations by com erical airline prior to Mr Jordan's travel. The cost fMr thed'ttendanst'was incurred dbe to'airliW regulations wbch reqbiiretr t infants (children under 2 'ears oftage) be seated'iwith an gccovpanyihg adult. The.an who flew with Mrs. 'Jordan was responsible for, and did in fact, hold orne of the Jordans'.infant sons during the course of the flight. M. Jordan's entitlement to reimbur`'ment in the amount of $114, the coat of the airfare for the attendant,±s questioned since such expense, not specifically authorized by Mr. Jordan's travel author- ization or the Federal Travel Regulations (FPMR 101-7) (May 1973). In our deciilon 1CM;'. Farns tw h, B-183563, May7,4 1976, we held)thata:transferred'WRDloyee mightbe'reimbursed -he cost'of an airline ti ket forVthe -a'ttdcdknt of the employee's 16 month-old daughter whose travel had been delayed because of illness. The rationale for our ho' ding was that without the accompanyikag adult, 4.- Li' -' 1.5$'! 4. 1~' ¼ 'LX '1 *5'% -I II Si 1~ i I 1' I! F I' r r I' '1 I? I! jk Si - /* I, . 9

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