This is possible by this way:
next lie!
They decided that their route was best based on hundreds of different factors. And you want every one of those things explained to you? What did your last slave die of?
What we have very clearly shown you is that there are a lot of factors involved when deciding flight routes, and simply taking flight times into consideration is not a good measure of how far things are.
The world is a complicated place with many cross border agreements, fighting, unions, politics, climate, geographical elements, legal, physical constraints, concerns for safety ext that all need to be accounted for when designing flight routes.
Pilots dont just jump behind a cockpit and ask the passengers where they wanna go.
Please, for your sake, contact a local flight school or air charter, and ask if you can sit down and interview a pilot and ask him about these things. Better, ask him if he can bring a flight chart and copy of a flight plan with. Then ask him all these questions. You clearly dont trust us here, so take it to someone neutral.
Pilots are generally nice people, just keep away from young Air force guys, in my experience they all think they are Tom Cruise.