Federal public servants will be required to reduce air travel and make greater use of smaller airlines and discounted economy fares as the Federal Government seeks savings through a new travel procurement policy.
The new travel policy requires that air travel should ''only be undertaken where other communication tools, such as teleconferencing and videoconferencing, can be demonstrated to be an ineffective option''.
The Federal Government had issued three separate open tenders for government travel services, Finance and Deregulation Minister Lindsay Tanner said yesterday.
''The Commonwealth spends more than $500 million a year on travel services,'' he said.
''Currently this is done in an extremely haphazard, inefficient manner.
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