[Claim for Travel Cost Reimbursement]

B-256736 July 8, 1994

DIGEST

Mr.          

Dear Mr.          :

This responds to your March 1, 1994 appeal of our Claims Group's settlement Z-2868931, Feb. 16, 1994, which denied your claim for reimbursement of commercial air fare expenses for your March 1990 travel on a foreign air carrier for that portion of your travel from London to Houston and return. Your appeal presents nothing to change the conclusion in the Claims Group's settlement that the provisions in the Fly America Act, 49 U.S.C. App. Sec. 1517 (1988), preclude reimbursement of the fare for the foreign air travel in question.

While it is unfortunate that you were unaware of the provisions of the Fly America Act, we are not authorized to waive the provisions of the Act. See e.g.          , B-234719, Sept. 15, 1989, copy enclosed. Accordingly, the denial of your claim for reimbursement is affirmed.

Enclosure