Travel Status

  • Domestic Travel includes the day before business is set to begin and ends the day after official business concludes.
    • When a rest day stop is authorized, the applicable fixed meal allowance rate for that day will be calculated for the rest stop location.
  • International Travel includes two days before business is set to begin and ends the day after official business concludes.
    • If the flight and layovers total more than 8 hours, the destination is foreign travel, airfare is coach/economy, and follows a direct route with no personal destinations; an additional rest period day can be claimed.
    • When a rest day stop is authorized, the applicable fixed meal allowance rate for that day will be calculated for the rest stop location.
    • When the International Date Line is crossed, actual elapsed time will be used rather than calendar days to determine the meal allowance.