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B-224054 1 (1987-03-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmpz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroler General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- Philip E. Trickett--Use of Personal Discount Coupon for Official Travel File: B-224054 Date: March 17, 1987 DIGEST An employee, who traveled on official business, claims reim- bursement for S50 discount coupon he used in purchasing airline ticket. The discount coupon was earned by the employee in connection with his personal, long-distance tele- phone calls. We hold that the employee may be reimbursed only for the actual and necessarily incurred travel expenses and not for any gratuitous payments made in the course of official travel. Personally obtained coupons should be used for personal purposes only and not for official travel. Therefore, employee may not be reimbursed for the discount.- coupon. DECISION This decision is in response to a claim submitted by Mr. Philip E. Trickett, an employee of the Department of the Air Force, for reimbursement of the value of a personally- obtained discount coupon he used in connection with official travel. For the reasons set forth below, we hold that Mr. Trickett may not be reimbursed for the amount he alleges to be the value of the discount coupon. Mr. Trickett was authorized to travel from his permanent duty station at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to the Naval Air Station in Lemoore, California, for temporary duty in November 1985. He states that after making his airline reservations through the Scheduled Airline Ticket Office (SATO), he chose to purchase his round-trip ticket at the airport ticket counter using his personal credit card. He further states that the cost of the ticket ($522) was the same whether he or the Government purchased the ticket. When Mr. Trickett purchased the round-trip airline ticket, he also used an American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) Travel Certificate which he had earned through personal long-distance telephone calls over AT&T long-distance lines. -=A3I4 q'5-5

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