Air Mobility Command (AMC) recently unveiled its first official, command-level AMC Travel Web site. Members of the military community planning to travel the AMC military travel system can now go to
www.amc.af.mil/amctravel/index.asp for the latest in AMC travel information. The site, which officially went live 24 JUL, offers prospective space-available travelers a wealth of information, including an updated AMC passenger terminal contact list (complete with phone, e-mail and Web links). The site also includes more than a dozen travel documents, example letters and brochures. Every day around the world, hundreds of military and military-contracted commercial aircraft travel the world delivering troops and cargo. And each year, hundreds of thousands of military personnel, retirees, and their family members go along for the ride, courtesy of the AMC space-available travel program. Space-available flights, also known as "military hops," are a unique benefit to U.S. servicemembers, retirees and their families. Under the AMC travel program, unused seats on U.S. military and military-contracted aircraft are made available to non-duty passengers on a space-available basis (once space-required or official-duty passengers and cargo have been accommodated).
Tech. Sgt. Steve Katsonis of the AMC passenger policy branch said, "The site was created to provide our customers a
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