A bunch of us have to fly two hours for a one week work trip. For the 2 hour flight, the options were 3pm, 5.30pm and 8.30pm. we have to fly on a workday I didn't want to fly at 5.30pm as it would eat up to my personal time.
My manager called me out and said it's basically taking a personal half day and was unreasonable to fly during work hours. I was genuinely confused as I said I'm flying for a work trip during work hours.
To add to this, the senior manager is also flying on the same 3pm flight and shared her itinerary with us as a reference. So I genuinely am blindsided at being called out for booking a flight during work hours and being called unreasonable.
Usually I wouldn't mind but I have been made redundant and will leave in 3 months. It was handled poorly by the company so I promised myself that I wouldn't give them an extra minute of my time if I didn't need to.
Is it common practice to fly during or after work hours for a work trip? Would like to hear everyone else's opinion.