KOTI - Korea Transport institute

Government manages air mileage obtained during public business trips of civil servants, which is called 'public air mileage', and utilizes it for the next business trips. Because air mileage is accumulated into personnel air mileage account, not into the government account, it is difficult for government to monitor and manage public air mileage.
Moreover, public air mileage has not been utilized efficiently because it is partitioned into each civil servant and each airline's account.
Therefore, it is required for government to improve air mileage program to manage and use public air mileage. First of all, the analysis of Government Travel Request (GTR), which is a travel contract between the government and airlines, is essential because it determines conditions including fare and fees of public business trip. After that, this study proposes several ways to improve air mileage program for civil service: discounted fare of public business trip instead of air mileage, incentive to promote the usage of public air mileage, payment by partly cash and partly public air mileage to save budget, and so forth.