Originally Posted by
ayeaye
I don't blame them though - the leisure flights are non-refundable so they would be paying half of that ticket cost that plus the cost of the ticket back home from IAH. This way I get more miles for crossing the Atlantic twice - so there's a slight upside to the madness.
I blame them.
All they need to do is pay for a one way SFO->IAH, and another one way, IAH->UK. It is completely unreasonable to fly back to the UK, when you are already in the US. Only a terrible employer who would force an employee to do so.