Originally Posted by FahQ2

Once you’ve been doing block times of 13-17 hours, the whole “paid by the minute” quip just doesn’t matter anymore. EWR to MIA on a day we are paid more than guarantee and ATC slows us down, sure no problem I’ll fly green dot all the way. When your body is on the backside of the clock but the sun’s out where you are and still have another four hours to go…. You’d trade all those minutes of pay to do .84 and get to the hotel bed.