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B-219489 1 (1986-09-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmlj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / I / Sa'The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- John W. Eastham - Reimbursement of Cost of Airline Ticket Purchased From Travel Agent File: B-219489 Date: September 8, 1986 DIGEST Employee, authorized official travel from San Francisco to Honolulu in December 1982, purchased an airline ticket, with cash, from a travel agent. The employee may be reimbursed the amount he paid for the ticket since the record shows that the cost was less than the regular fare; that he was not aware of the general prohibition against use of travel agents; that he did not intend to circumvent the regulations; and that precautionary actions he took prior to purchasing ticket from a travel agent were reasonable and prudent under the circumstances. DECISION This decision is in response to an appeal by Mr. Larry Schaat, Regional Fiscal Management Officer, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of the Treasury, and Mr. John W. Eastham, an employee of IRS, of our Claims Group settlement which denied Mr. Eastham's claim for reimbursement of the cost of an airline ticket which he purchased with cash from a travel agency to perform official travel. For the reasons stated below, we hold that the settlement by the Claims Group is overruled and that the claimed expense may be reimbursed. BACKGROUND Mr. Eastham is employed by IRS in the San Francisco, California regional office. In October 1982, he was directed to perform official travel to Honolulu, Hawaii, in December 1982. The agency reports that although Mr. Eastham had traveled on official business in the continental United States, he had never traveled outside the continental United States for the Government. Mr. Eastham contacted the General

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