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B-198194 1 (1980-07-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadilg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION\ OF THE UNITED STATES WASHIN I GTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-198194 DATE: July 28, 1980 MATTER OF: Civil Aeronautics Boa DIGEST: 0 Id? 1. Common carrier, which, without negligence and in good faith, honors Government transporta- tion request (GTR) regular on its face al- though fraudulent is entitled to payment for services rendered. 2. Common carriershonoring GTR are required only to exercise due care to establish identity of traveler as party to whom GTR was issued. -The Comptroller of the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) requests an advance decision concerning the propriety of paying claims of various airlines for travel services furnished pursuant to unauthorized and illegal use of Government transportation requests (GTR). The report of the CAB shows that an employee of the CAB, occupying the position of Voucher Examiner, apparently misappropriated a large number of GTRs. These GTRs were used by the employee for personal travel or were given or sold to third parties for personal travel mostly by several different airlines. The CAB has paid $6,134.74 in claims for airline travel on the fraudulent GTRs. The remaining claims aggregating $32,113.60 are being held in abeyance pending the de- cision of our Office. The CAB has requested a decision by the Comptroller General answering the following questions: First, Have the carriers a claim against the Government for services rendered pursuant to unauthorized GTRs?; and, second, If not, does the Government have a claim against the carriers for $6,134.74 of charges paid on such un- authorized GTR travel? Our Office has repeatedly held that a carrier, which, in good faith and without negligence, has fur- nished transportation on request or by other contrac- tual arrangements, is entitled to payment, although. vd2 F T t 1 J V

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