Not at all. Obviously staff travel is a tremendous bargain and you take your chances; but I thought in this case there was a bit of a c__k up.
Also, a question about scheduling.......what I would have thought were peak flights (Fri afternoon) are operated by a mix of 734s, 319s and 320s..........whereas on Sunday lunchtime the NCL-LHR flight is operated by a 757. That went out pretty empty.