Fly America Act Franci Farnsworth 11 May 1994 13:12 EST

Help!  I've just had my first questions about how to comply with this
requirement (which I only learned about when we bought the NCURA Regulation
and Compliance notebook).

Is it true that once you get to Europe on a domestic carrier there's no
problem with using foreign carriers between places over there?  (someone
told a faculty member that)

If a domestic carrier (eg, Continental) has an arrangement with a foreign
carrier (eg, Czech Air) so that the domestic carrier can book you through
to your final destination -- does that comply with Fly America even if the
last leg is on the foreign carrier?

Can you choose whatever domestic carrier is most convenient even if that
precludes your being able to fly that last leg of the trip on a domestic
carrier?  (eg, you can get from the US to Prague via Delta with lots of
stopovers here and abroad -- or you can go via Continental very directly to
Frankfurt and then use Continental's Czech Air connection).  The preferred
way to get to Frankfurt is Continental -- but that would mean using Czech
Air for the last leg.

Sorry for the details -- but I don't even know who to ask...and I've re-read
the NCURA book three times.  I think it's OK to do the Continental bit, but
doesn anyone out there know?  Or can you provide some rules of thumb for the
future?

Thanks.

Franci Farnsworth
Middlebury College
xxxxxx@middlebury.edu