Originally Posted by M20EPilot

In my experience, you do not break guarantee on reserve. I am on the Bro which is at the present time better staffed. It sounds like the folks on the jet, as the poster above, have a different story to tell. In my particular case I live in base, and when I was on reserve (and it looks like I will be again here shortly), selecting 'call first' was more of a strategic move to try to get assigned an interesting looking trip in open time. But at my last job, I commuted, and just as you suggested I wanted to FLY if I were away from home.