The beauty of this is that it's Egencia offering it. It's rare that business travelers get to do MRs on company dime and time. But when the company requires the traveler to use Egencia, and to use the lowest fare that Egencia offers, and Egencia offers IAD-SFO-BOS, the traveler can take that trip on company dime and most importantly on company time. Then, if the manager brings up the full day of lost work, the traveler can commiserate and complain about the absurdity of the travel policy.