If you accept U.S. taxpayer dollars, you go by the rules that indicate
"Fly American".

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Machado
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:55 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Fly America Act

I have many of my researchers who are involved with foreign travel
directly
related to their NIH funding (Global Health related).  Because of the
Fly
America Act they should be using American carriers (or ones that are
code
shared with American carriers).  Apparently, the prices on American
carriers
is much more expensive than the prices on foreign airlines.  After
asking
several of my PIs if they met the requirements in order to take the
foreign
airlines, based on the requirements of being allowed to do so, they said
no.

I can't imagine it would be OK, regardless of price, to fly foreign
airlines
given the gov'ts current fiscal crisis and the airlines on the verge of
bankruptcy and potentially another taxpayer bailout; so it wouldn't make
sense to divert taxpayer money to foreign carriers.

Does anyone else have this issue?  What are you doing about it?  And,
because of the price of travel has substantially increased, has anyone
gone
back to NIH and requested additional funds to cover the costs of flying
American carriers?

Any advice is appreciated -

Jim Machado
Sr Research Administrator

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