Hopefully that's what they will do. But they could also just let us sit longer at hotels. A work day in the middle of a trip might drop from 4 legs to 2-3 legs if that's what it takes to comply with rest requirements. This could turn 4-day trips into five days. The regionals will not let us fly less block, unless the annual limit is dropped below 1000 hours. They will get their 80 hours/month out of us one way or another.

Also...unlike a major regionals cannot schedule their flights to optimize crew utilization, they just get assigned flights by the majors (who don't consider regional efficiency). All they can do is mix and match those flights around to build the best trip they can (if they make the effort, some don't bother).