| | Advisory Legal Opinion - State agency's expenditure for first class air travel |
 | | In case a person travels by an indirect route for his or her own convenience, any extra costs shall be borne by the traveler; and reimbursement for expenses shall be based only on such charges as would have been incurred by a usually traveled route. |
 | | When it is more efficient and economical to either the traveler or the agency head, jet service offered by any airline, whether on state contract or not, may be used when the cost is within an approved threshold determined by the agency head or his or her designee. |
 | | The provision in section 112.061(7)(c), Florida Statutes, requiring a traveler to reimburse the agency for transportation cost in excess of the most economical class of travel does not appear to provide clear statutory authority for agency heads to approve a class of travel other than that which is most economical, except where fully justified. |
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