Premium Class Travel: Internal Control Weaknesses Governmentwide Led to Improper and Abusive Use of Premium Class Travel

Abstract

Why GAO Did This Study. Previous GAO work on widespread improper premium class travel at the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State (State) have led to concerns as to whether similar improper travel exists in the rest of the federal government. Consequently, GAO was asked to (1) determine the magnitude of premium class travel governmentwide and the extent such travel was improper, (2) identify internal control weaknesses that contributed to improper and abusive premium class travel, and (3) report on specific cases of improper and abusive premium class travel. GAO analyzed bank data and performed statistical sampling to quantify the extent premium class travel was improper. GAO also performed data mining, reviewed travel regulations, and interviewed agency officials.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2007
Accession Number
AD1122958

Entities

People

  • Barbara Lewis
  • Beverly Burke
  • Gregory D. Kutz
  • John Kelly
  • John P. Ryan
  • Leslie Jones
  • Lindsay Welter
  • Mark Ramage
  • Paul Desaulniers
  • Scott Wrightson
  • Sunny Chang
  • Tuyet-quan Thai

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Accountability
  • Case Studies
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Data Mining
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Europe
  • Executives
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Hong Kong
  • Law
  • Middle East
  • National Governments
  • Personnel Management
  • Sampling
  • Statistical Samples
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Western Europe

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  • Government Contracting/Procurement.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy