https://www.gao.gov/products/407418

B-254858: Nov 22, 1995

An airline offers a "free" companion ticket when a round-trip ticket to specified cities is purchased. An agency asks whether the free companion ticket may be used by its employees for personal use when the ticket is obtained incident to official travel. Such use is not allowed under existing General Services Administration (GSA) regulations. Which provide that all promotional materials received b...

https://www.gao.gov/products/155677

B-254858: Nov 22, 1995

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requested a decision on whether its employees could use free companion airline tickets for personal use when they are obtained incident to official travel. GAO held that General Services Administration (GSA): (l) regulations do not allow employees' to retain any promotional materials of value that were obtained incident to official travel; and (2) could change it...