Priorities for flying Space-A follow several categories of
travel, set by the Department of Defense Regulation 4515.13-
R, "Air Transport Eligibility." Army personnel should
check with the nearest terminal for more information.
The following is a partial listing of travel categories and
selection priorities for eligible passengers. This list is
available from TRANSCOM on the Web at: https://josac.transcom.mil/directive/chap6.pdf
Category I - Emergency Leave Unfunded Travel
Emergency round-trip travel in connection with serious illness,
death or impending death of a member of the immediate family
of the following:
•U.S. citizen civilian employees of the Defense Department
stationed overseas;
•Full-time, paid personnel of the American Red Cross serving
with U.S. military overseas;
•Military family members whose sponsors are stationed within
the continental United States and the emergency exists overseas;
•Family members of U.S. civilian employees of the DoD when
both sponsor and dependents are stationed overseas at the
same location;
•Military family members when accompanied by their sponsor
may travel within the ConUS if the emergency exists in the
ConUS.
Category II - Sponsors in an Environmental Morale Leave
(EML) Status
•Sponsors on environmental and morale leave and accompanied
family members. Military personnel also must be on ordinary
leave;
•DoD Dependent School teachers and accompanied family members
in EML status during school-year holiday, vacation periods
or employer-approved training during recess periods.
Category III - Ordinary Leave, House Hunting Permissive
TDY, Medal of Honor Holders, Foreign Military, and Others
•Service members in an ordinary or re-enlistment leave status
and military patients on convalescent leave;
•Military personnel traveling on permissive temporary duty
orders for house hunting;
•If permissive TDY is for permanent change of station house
hunting, the member may travel in the ConUS and overseas,
and be accompanied by one family member;
•Family members (with a valid identification card) of a service
member when accompanied by their sponsor who is in an ordinary
leave status;
•Foreign exchange service members on permanent duty with
the DoD, when in a leave status.
Category IV - Unaccompanied Dependents on EML and DoDDS
Teachers on EML During Summer
•Unaccompanied family members (18 years or older) traveling
on EML orders. Family members under 18 must be accompanied
by an adult family member who is traveling EML;
•DoDDS teachers or family members in an EML status year round.
Category V - Permissive TDY (Non-House Hunting), Students,
Command Sponsored Dependents
•Students whose sponsor is stationed in Alaska or Hawaii;
•Military personnel traveling on permissive TDY orders for
other than house hunting;
•Command-sponsored dependents (18 years of age) of service
members who are stationed overseas may travel unaccompanied
from the sponsors PCS duty location to the ConUS and return.
Travel cannot be between two overseas theaters. Dependents
must have command sponsored documentation signed by the commander
verifying command sponsorship
Category VI - Retired, Dependents, Reserve, ROTC, NUPOC,
and CEC
•National Guard/reserve components/members of the Ready Reserve
and members of the Standby Reserve who are on the active-status
list;
•Retired military members who are issued DD Form 2 and eligible
to receive retired or retainer pay;
•Family members (with valid ID card) of retired members when
accompanied by a sponsor.
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