out and backs?
 

im sure this would be really outrageous, but are there any airlines that are "out and back airlines"... meaning, is there any chance that someday i can a job where i would get something like this:
get up, go to the airport and fly a day like EWR-wherever-wherever-wherever-EWR, drive back home at the end of the last one, go back the next day and do the same thing... i used EWR because thats where im closest, but something like this to any airport... sounds like a dream come true for pilot quality of life....... and his wife's

There might be an airline that only flies out and backs, but it's not going to be a career job.

These out and backs are called "turns," and most airlines have them in at least some domiciles.

Day Trips
 

Day trips are the indusrty dream. I have been lucky enough to have had to or three bids with all day trips. It almost made the job seem good.

SkyHigh

company name?

Get the right to live and work in the EU and then you can go to work for Ryanair or Easy Jet. They both have schedules like that.

I worked for a non-sched in Nevada where we had schedules like that most of the time. The best deal ever lasted for about 6 months. It was 5 on, 10 off. The days on had a departure at 10:00 am, flew about 7 hours, then back by 8:00 pm.

Typhoonpilot

Most every company (at least those that base pilots out of a hub) builds some sort of day trip lines (the number and value vary). It's a necessity to allow for the best utilization of the pilot group and staffing numbers.

Most of the time they go very senior. Personally I disliked them since you don't earn any untaxed per diem and it took me about 2 hours of commuting each day when you factored in the time to get to/from employee parking, through security, and out to the terminal (and I lived 5 miles from the parking lot)...

Some of our most senior schedules at Alaska are ANC, SAN, or LAS turns. Typically you show up at 7 and are home by 4pm. The pay about 7 for the day and result in about 19 days off a month. Sweet.

has anyone heard of a regional like this where it is common practice, or even Continental/ExpressJet doing this out of Newark?
boy that would be sweet

Different strokes I suppose. Personally, I can't think of anything worse than driving to the airport each day to do a turn. But that's just me.

Amen to that! Although there was a period where ACA was flying daily corporate shuttles for AOL from IAD to TEB... 0530 show at the hangar (park 50' from the plane/no security)... 0630 departure (we actually usually showed around 6), in TEB at 730, depart TEB 0745, back in IAD at 0845, home on the couch at 0915. Do that 5 days straight with weekends and holidays off... work another day job from home, and make your 75 hr guarantee.