I am a grad student in the U.S., and I will be going to the U.K. for a conference. I'm under a federal (not DoD) fellowship, so if I want to be reimbursed for the flight, I'd need to adhere to the Fly America Act.
I was reading about the Open Skies exception, and it seems that I would be able to take a EU airline as that would fall under the exception. My University provided this checklist (see below pic) to see if a traveler would qualify for the Open Skies exception. I can answer "No" to questions 1&2. However, for question 3, my origin is San Francisco and Destination is London, and I see that a city-pair does exist when I searched on the gsa.gov website. According to this form, because of the existence of the city-pair, the Open Skies Agreement does not seem to apply. But I did not see this anywhere on the Open Skies description on the Department of State and GSA websites. I'm wondering if my University made a mistake in this checklist. Does anyone have experience with this?
Checklist