AV8OR,
I've worked for two companies that paid for hotels in your domicile and bought tickets from the house to work and back. I've argued with the company about why I had to ride a certain flight to work. "We need to put you in a hotel before you start." "But I'm only going to be on duty for four hours with flights here to there every hour." (Was giving a line check.) "Doesn't matter, get on the flight and go to the hotel." Pilots would call travel at the end of their line and say they want a later flight before they go home so they could hit the hotel after they were done and sleep before they got home - no screaming kids and stuff.

One company added the cost of the hotel and tickets to your income so you were taxed on them, one had a letter that said they did it for the company's convenience. The secret was to bid trips that didn't start in your domicile.