Originally Posted by tsegs

Can you please share how you were able to get a waiver to fly a non-US carrier? I'm a GS also and PCSing from Seattle to Vicenza next month. Although United has a public fare flight that is operated by Lufthansa, SATO's system can't price it because a government fare isn't available. It's maddening. I'm tentatively reserved on Delta although the flights are operated by Air France with a layover in Paris. I'd much prefer to fly with Lufthansa through Frankfurt but Sato refuses to book it.