That is a good attitude to have.

I was assuming that as long as captains are in short supply, being sent on out of base reserve assignments, and being used, reserve would be an unpopular choice, unless someone chose reserve to get a holiday or something off. If you could sit at home on reserve most of the time, reserve would go more senior. Maybe things will change with all the forced upgrades, assuming most of them succeed and stay, but I suspect as long as the company awards upgrades where pilots want to be, there will continue to be many out of base reserve assignments to less popular bases. But I, too, am speculating.