Originally Posted by gooselee

This, compounded by...



...not all employers allow the flexibility, nor do they let employees book their own travel.

I previously worked somewhere where all travel was required to be booked by the corporate travel department, who "knew best." This department was comprised of a bunch of very nice ladies who did not travel much themselves, and certainly not for work as they were always in the travel office booking things for others. Luckily, I didn't have to travel more than a few times a year for that job, but every time I did, I somehow ended up with some a 2-stop nightmare routing with a 3-hour layover and terminal transfer to a K5 flight, followed by a few nights at the Drury Inn. (Actually, the K5 flights were kind of fun.)

From the folks I keep in touch with, not much has changed there, and I can imagine that some of them will end up on E fares by no choosing of their own.