Air Travel At Public Expense Upon Posting

[techie_tubby]

Needing some info from people in the know.I'm currently awaiting an assingment order to North Scotland and I am trying to find out about travel. I am trying to find the appropriate JSP to try and back up my claim. My nearest airport is Dusseldorf Int and I can get a flight from there to Aberdeen for approx £120 inc taxes and appropriate baggage charges, I can then get a lift from a mate at Lossie so that won't have to be sorted out by work. Now I am not sure about the costs of the trooping flight, heard on the grapevine of approx £100 but the airport it goes from is approx 4hrs away by MT and it only goes into Birmingham. I presume that it would then be a rail warrant from Birmingham to Lossiemouth which at rough prices on trainline are £147 putting the total cost at approx £300 inc of travel too airport. Using the trooper also means a complete door to door journey time of approx 18 hours compared to approx 8 if I was to fly from Dus. If I was to approach my admin/budget manager armed with this info would I have a chance of getting civair flight or would I just be told to poke off?

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

Its people like you, with initiative and common sense, that are ruining the pursuits of the modern Air Force. DT_Xtremez_30:
No idea.
Free bump.

 

[Joe_90]

Your admin staff are allowed to use initiative. Of course I haven't yet met a civvy in accounts with the ability to do so.

 

[busby1971]

The trooper is only an indicative charge so you need to take this out of the mix.

If you really want to save money you could hitch, or if your admin are flexible can you not claim mileage from Brum (port of entry) to the frozen north which should more than cover you paying for your own air fare.

 

[techie_tubby]

It's not really about saving money, more the fact I don't really want to endure an 18 hour trip when I can do it in 8. I will have to get the train from Brum anyway so I doubt they will give me MMA. It's bad enough trying to get a stationary order from DE&S ISS let alone a travel claim lol.

 

[muttywhitedog]

I suggest you put this proposal to your Budget Manager and get his/her approval in writing.

Personally, if it works for you and it works for the taxpayer, then it shouldnt even need budget managers' approval, but we all know that there would be someone somewhere who would seek to recover the money from you if you hadnt got it authorised in triplicate from 2 air officers and the pope.

 

[tommo9999]

Before I left the RAF Admin Office at JHQ (It was in 08 granted), you could fill in the SOBAG form and get your Budget Holder to sign off - they generally would if you could prove the cost benefit. It might be worth popping down to the RAO office to chat to them about it?

 

[Stevienics]

.....do there actually exchange money when the railway company receives a rail warrant or is this a discounted deal? Like the trooping flight, you have to figure in only where it costs real pennies.