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B-219850 1 (1986-02-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmen0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IDECISlON FILE: B-219850 MATTEA OF: S THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 DATE: February 19, 1986 ergeant Jeffry A. Collins, USAF DIGEST: Statement by a service member that U.S. air carrier serving Okinawa was overbooked and, therefore, unavailable does not provide adequate justification for his travel by foreign air carrier from California to Honolulu, and from there to Tokyo, en route to Okinawa. Adequacy of justification is to be determined in accord- ance with the Fly America Act standards of unavailability set forth in Joint Travel Regu- lations, vol. 1, para. M2150. When a U.S. air carrier cannot provide through service between origin and destination, these standards require the member to use U.S. air carrier service available at point of origin to the farthest practicable interchange point on a usually traveled route. Sergeant Jeffry A. Collins appeals our Claims Group's denial of reimbursement for his and his family's overseas travel on a foreign air carrier incident to a permanent change of station from Beale Air Force Base, California, to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. With his appeal Sergeant Collins has submitted a statement justifying his use of a foreign air carrier on the basis that the only U.S. air carrier serving Okinawa was unavailable because of overbookings and flight cutbacks. Because it does not address the availability of U.S. air carrier service for travel to interchange points en route to Okinawa, the state- ment does not provide an adequate justification for his and his family's travel by foreign air carrier. Background For the purpose of performing change-of-station travel, Sergeant Collins was authorized Government air transporta- tion from California to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. Instead, he elected to use commercial air transportation in order to travel by way of Honolulu, Hawaii, where he took leave. This election was approved in an amendment to his travel orders, and Sergeant Collins was advised that his -J Ir (

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