B-227468: Mar 11, 1988

The government has no obligation to reimburse the employee for the constructive cost of travel where no actual travel expenses are incurred. Since the official travel was combined with a personal trip. The employee may only be reimbursed to the extent that his actual expenses do not exceed the cost which would otherwise have been incurred had only official travel been performed. Park - Travel Expe...

B-227468: Mar 11, 1988

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) requested a decision regarding an employee's claim for reimbursement for airline expenses incident to official travel. The claimant contended that BLM should reimburse him for the cost of round-trip government coach fare for the official travel, since he: (1) combined the official travel and a personal trip; (2) used an airline ticket his wife won to cover most...