About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-228664 1 (1988-03-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmzw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Billy J. Slinger - Temporary Duty Travel - Airline Matterof- Ticket Purchased from Travel Agent File: B-228664 Date: March 2, 1988 DIGEST An employee, who was an infrequent traveler and who was authorized official travel to Germany and return, purchased his airline ticket through a travel agent with personal funds at a cost less than government-procured airfare. In accordance with the provisions of volume 2, Joint Travel Regulations, the employee may be reimbursed for the airline ticket where he was unaware of the prohibition on purchasing transportation with personal funds from travel agents. DECISION This decision is in response to a letter from Mr. Billy J. Slinger, requesting reconsideration of our Claims Group's settlement Z-2864110, dated June 30, 1987, which disallowed his claim for reimbursement for privately secured airfare in connection with official travel performed in May 1985. We hold he may be reimbursed for the following reasons. BACKGROUND Mr. Slinger, an employee of the MTMC Transportation Engineering Agency, Department of the Army, was authorized to perform temporary duty travel in Oberursel, Germany, for 7 days and to return to his permanent station in Newport News, Virginia. While preparing for the trip, Mr. Slinger contacted the Scheduled Airline Ticket Office (SATO) serving his activity to arrange for airline accommodations. He was informed that the ticket price would be either $739 or $764, depending on his departure location. He then spoke to an employee of his agency's Budget Office to determine whether he could obtain airline tickets with his own money through a private travel agent and be reimbursed. He states that he was told that it could be done that way. Later he received another call from the same Budget Office employee who advised him that tickets which had a travel agent's name on them could not be turned

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most