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B-192548 1 (1979-04-18)

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                     -~THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DE~~D~g'      OF THE UNITED STATES
                      WAS-NGTON, D.C. 20548



                                        PROD 1 8 1079


           FILE:   B-192548                 DATE:

           MATTER   OF:  Geoffrey Arn - Fly America Act - Rest
                         stop selection

           DIGEST:    1. Incident to home leave travel from Paris to San
                         Francisco, an employee and his wife traveled
                         from Paris to London by foreign air carrier,
                         took a rest stop in London and traveled on to
                         San Francisco by U. S. ai carrier. -7Although
                         thei-r rest stop in Londas 1  proper under
                         theoest stop selection principles set forth in.
                         57 Comp.  Gen. 76 (1977),(and resulted in
                         reduced use of U. S. air carrier service avail-
                         able directly from Paris,)the employee may be
                         reimbursed air fare for travel to San Francisco
                         without penalty since their travel predated the
                         issuance of that decision on November 14, 1977.

                      2. Incident to return travel to Paris following home
                         leave in San Francisco, Aemployee and his
                         wife took a rest stop in Boston. From Boston
                         they traveled to London where the employee per-
                         formed temporary duty and took leave before
                         traveling the remaining distance from London
                         to Paris by foreign air carrier.Y $&e he em-
                         ployee's wife could have traveled directly from
                         Boston to Paris by U. S. air jarrier the amount
                         reimbursable for her travel 1{iFsquired to be
                         r'educed, bta
                         wi±li' e roration,formulasset forth in 56 Comp.
                         Gen.  209 (1977).

              This decision is in response to a rE st for a ruling by
       0 IEdwin J. Fost, Chief, Accounting Section, Office of the Controller,
          Drug Enforcement Administration, as to the air transportation
C(2       expense entitlement of Mr. Geoffrey Arn.
             Mr.  Arn and his wife were authorized home leave travel from
          Paris in the late summer and early fall of 1976. The question
          concerning Mr. Arn's transportation expenses entitlement arises
          because the manner in which he routed their travel between Paris
          and San Francisco resulted in use of a foreign air carrier between
          Paris and London. Mr. Arn  and his wife could have traveled the

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