What is required from travelers before airline tickets will be issued?
Except as noted below, travelers must fax travel orders and/or trip authorizations to their servicing ADTRAV office when approved, but no later than two business days prior to travel to ensure that airline tickets are issued. Travel orders may need to be faxed sooner for non-refundable or restricted fares. ADTRAV will not issue tickets without approved travel orders and/or trip authorizations. It is important to include airline ticket cost (or best estimate), departure airport, and arrival airport on all travel orders. Blanket travel orders must accompany all trip authorizations faxed to ADTRAV. (NOTE: NIST & NTIA Boulder – Employees using Travel Manager do not need to fax travel authorizations to ADTRAV. Authorizations should be approved at least 5 days prior to the date of departure and approved travel authorizations will be forwarded to ADTRAV by the NIST Travel Office staff).
