Do meal periods count as time in a travel status?
A. For the purpose of earning compensatory time off for travel, meal periods are not subtracted when taken while in transit and as part of the usual waiting time at a terminal. However, meal times taken in transit while not on a carrier or waiting at a terminal would not qualify as compensable for compensatory time off for travel (e.g., stopping for a meal when traveling in a rental vehicle from a transportation terminal to a temporary duty station would not count as compensatory time off for travel.
