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B-210132 1 (1983-06-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadldu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: B-210132 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 DATE: June 24, 1983 MATTER DIGEST: OF: Fly America Act Penalty for Involuntary Re-routing En route home from temporary duty overseas an employee indirectly routed his travel to take annual leave in Dublin and scheduled his return flight from Shannon to the United States on a U.S. air carrier. Upon arrival in Shannon the employee was informed that his scheduled flight had been discontinued and the carrier scheduled the employee's transoceanic travel on a foreign air carrier. Since there were no alternative schedules at that point under which the employee could have traveled on U.S. air carriers available under the Comp- troller General's Guidelines for Implementa- tion of the Fly America Act for the trans- oceanic portion of his travel, there need be no penalty for the use of a foreign air carrier. The General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency has asked whether an employee must be assessed a penalty under the Fly America Act, 49 U.S.C. S 1517, when the U.S. air carrier flight on which he had sched- uled his return to the United States from a point along an indirect route was discontinued and the U.S. air car- rier rescheduled the employee's transoceanic travel on a foreign air carrier. The penalty is not applied where the employee originally planned his indirect or delayed travel by U.S. air carriers, but at the time he was to use that planned travel the U.S. air carrier was not available and no alternative schedule was available for travel on U.S. air carriers under the Comptroller Gen- eral's Guidelines for Implementation of the Fly America Act, B-138942, revised March 31, 1981. The employee was returning from temporary duty overseas arranged to recurn to the United States through Dublin, Ireland, with a period of leave, rather than re- turning directly. The emploiee had confirmed reserva- tions from Shannon, ire!,an, to Boston to Washington on U.S. air carriers, hut when he arrived in Shannon on the Wednesday his fliqlt was scheduled to depart, he was ORCISlON / FILE:

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