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Allowable Waiver Situations (Without an approved waiver you must use a U.S. carrier on every portion of the route where one offers service. Note, lower cost is NOT an allowed basis for a waiver.) |
Enter or Attach in Grants Online | ||||
| Basic Info | Support for Justification | ||||
| 1 | U.S. service unavailable: | U.S. carrier involuntarily re-routes traveler on foreign carrier. | Enter: -Names of travelers -Dates of travel & times when travel will be completed -Origin & destination Explain why the waiver is justified per the situations cited at left |
Attach document from carrier or travel agent/service. | |
| 2 | No U.S. carrier serves a particular leg of the trip. | Explain that U.S. carriers are not allowed to fly within a foreign country. Or attach search results as described below. (Example) | |||
| 3 | Increased travel time: | When flight from origin to destination airport by foreign air carrier is 3 hours or less. |
Use of U.S. carrier extends travel by 6 hours or more. | Attach search results (Kayak, Expedia, etc.): -Limit search parameters to date/time when travels needs to be completed. -Do not limit search parameters to non-stop flights. -Priority sort by time, not by price. -Include all search result screens. -For any/all U.S. carriers that show search results, explain why such flighes cannot be used. (Hand-written notes on search reslults really help! For example, "increases travel time by more than 6 hrs.") |
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| 4 | Use of U.S. carrier doubles travel time. | ||||
| 5 | Air travel between U.S. gateway airport & foreign gateway airport.
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Use of nonstop U.S. carrier extends travel by 24 hours or more. | |||
| 6 | Bad foreign connections: | U.S. carrier travel... | ...increases plane changes outside the U.S. by 2 or more. (Example) | ||
| 7 | ...has 4 hours or more time at foreign interchange point. (Example) | ||||
| 8 | Use of a foreign carrier is "a matter of necessity" because: | U.S. carrier cannot provide needed transportation | a. For medical reasons. | Explain and/or document as appropriate: -Medical condition. -U.S. government travel advisory notice that specifically warns to avoid a U.S. carrier on the intended travel destinations of the trip in question. -Other. |
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| b. To avoid unreasonable risk to traveler's safety. | |||||
c. Seat in authorized class of service is available on foreign carrier. |
Attach document from carrier or travel agent/service. | ||||
d. Other reasons U.S. carrier cannot provide transportation. (Anything other 8.a.-c.) |
Explain and/or document as appropriate. (Not to be used for more convenient travel or cost considerations.) |
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e. Use of U.S. carrier will not accomplish DoC's mission. |
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| 9 | U.S. is party to bi- or multi-lateral agreement okayed by the Dept. of Transportation. As of Oct. 2011, travel aboard carriers flagged in the countries below is treated the same as if it were travel on a U.S. flag carrier: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Japan or the European Union. | Explain that the travel will be on a carrier from one of the approved countries on the bi- or multi-lateral agreement list. |
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| 10 | No U.S. air travel segments. (Applies to travelers with a home duty station or place of work that is considered to be a foreign location.) |
Explain that traveler is based abroad, not in the United States. | |||
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