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B-198930.3 1 (1990-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadntl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: iComptroller General of the United States Wahingto, D.C. 2054 Decision Matter of: Frederick H. Kalhammer - Educational Travel Allowances - Use of Foreign Airline and Travel Within United States File: B-198930.3 Date: June 25, 1990 DIGEST 1. Employee may be reimbursed for the cost of his 15- and 16-year old dependent children's travel between their school in Florida and his post in Honduras during spring recess on a foreign air carrier. While there was a U.S. carrier that might have provided service, its service was unreliable (often late and flights cancelled without notice), and its use would have required an overnight stay in a hotel. Therefore, considering the ages of the children and the fact they were traveling without an accompanying adult, use of the foreign carrier is considered to have been necessary. 2. Educational travel allowance may not be used to reimburse employee where children traveled from their school in Florida to join their parents in California during Christmas recess in lieu of joining them at their overseas post in Honduras. The allowance is available only for trips to visit their parents at overseas points. DECISION An authorized certifying officer of the Agency for Interna- tional Development (AID) asks whether an employee of that agency, Mr. Frederick H. Kalhammer, may be reimbursed for the airfare expenses he incurred for use of a foreign-flag airline for his dependent children to travel from Miami, Florida, to Honduras and return during their spring school recess in 1987. We also are asked whether he may be reimbursed for the airfare expenses resulting from his children's travel from Miami to California during their 1986 Christmas recess.l/ As explained 1/ The AID Controller at Mr. Kalhammer's post in Honduras disallowed both claims, and pursuant to Mr. Kalhammer's request, the Certifying Officer, Bruce K. Birnberg, Office of Financial Management, USIA, Washington, D.C., forwarded them for our decision. 049 9 3-z/ 1,4160

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