Use of Travel Agents in Arranging Government Air Transportation for Military Recruits

A travel agency requested authorization to accept Government transportation requests and to issue tickets for the air transportation of certain military recruits. Official Government passenger travel is procured directly from air carriers. Travel agents are not used because direct procurement is more efficient and economical, reservations and changes in travel schedules are more readily effected with less errors, and the statutory audit and settlement of carrier accounts is better facilitated and overcharges more quickly recovered under direct procurement.