NSF's guidance on this specifically says that cheaper prices are not a
justification for not flying an american flag carrier or a foreign
carrier with a code sharing arrangement with a US carrier.  We just went
throught this here, so it's fresh in my mind!

Kong, Mary wrote:

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