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B-208513 1 (1983-03-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkzd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTRCOLLEIR GENERAI~ OECISION - OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 2 u48 FILE: B-208513 DATE: March 28, 1983 MATTER OF: Mr. John King, Jr. - Reimbursement for Use of Non-certificatid Air Carrier DIGEST: Under guidelines issued by the Comptroller General, reasons for use of foreign air carrier must be properly certified. Comp- troller General decisions contain guide- lines regarding the adequacy of reasons for utilizing a foreign carrier. The Joint Travel Regulations require a determination of unavailability by the transportation or other appropriate officer and the require- ments contained therein are in keeping with the Comptroller General's guidelines and reimbursement is not authorized absent compliance. This action is in response to a request for a decision from R. G. Bordley, Chief, Accounting and Finance Division, Office of the Comptroller, Defense Logistics Agency, concerning a claim for reimbursement by an employee for airfare paid for travel by foreign air carrier from New York City to Hamburg, Germany, during June 1979. The request, forwarded by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee, has been assigned PDTATAC Control No. 82-18. On the basis of the documentation presented for decision we conclude that the employee may not be reimbursed. The record shows that John King, Jr. was directed to report for duty in Nuernberg, Germany, on June 28, 1979. Immediately upon receiving his orders on June 16, 1979, he went to the local Transportation Office at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, to deter- mine the mode of travel. Mr. King was informed that military transportation would be unavailable on such short notice and that he would have to make his own travel arrangements. He states that he was not in- formed of any restrictions on reimbursement for travel performed on foreign air carriers. Moreover, he claims that the travel agency that made the arrangements was unable to get him a reservation on a certificated air t a(q ;(-) 'Vt., -

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