I work for a company who are extremely cost sensitive regardless of how high up in the company one is, and they usually insist on employees using the cheapest fare, within reason. Almost invariably this means using indirect flights via a European hub (I live in London).
Usually the list of flights on offer shows plenty of seat available on direct flights but at much more expensive fares than the indirect flights via the European or M.E. hubs. Apart from the personal inconvenience, I find this particularly galling considering the extra fuel I will burn getting to the destination (why have just one take off and landing when you can have two?) and the resulting increased emissions.
Surely if the aviation industry and Governments are serious about cutting emissions, the one single thing they could do to dramatically improve the situation is to render it illegal to operate such fuel extravagant fare structures and encourage people to fly direct to their destinations . Or am I missing something?