Haha, the thought had occurred to me, might need to get paid by the mile. But you could NRT turns, and sleep in your own bed every night.

But no joke, I flew a turboprop years ago that was retired and replaced by an RJ. They pretty much kept the same schedules, same flight numbers, but with longer ground sits... and less block. The pilots were fine with it, higher pay scale for the jet more than made up for the lost block time. But the FA's were really pizzed off