You are right, you do not have to be in domicile for a long call assignment, you don't need to be in domicile for a short call assignment either.
Let say you live in MKE and can drive to O'Hare within 2 hours you are good.
But the company has been clear, you better be in domicile by your report time. So if you are long call and they call you at 5pm for a 5am report time and the last flight of the day was at 4:50pm and therefor you cannot make your long call assignment you could face loosing your job over it, and we have seen that during covid, lots of people have. I've been trying to get a clear answer for the company on this very subject as i was a Florida commuter and just could not bid long call for that very reason, my last flight out West Palm was around 2pm. It's different now, i can make it with FLL, MIA, PBI, MCO or i'd just take FedEx or UPS.

Exactly, you have to make your report time for short long and ready. This has moved into semantics.
I think you two are conflating Emer/Sad with reserve roulette. One is honest bad luck, the other is time/wage theft and lying about it.

Well let’s hope the hiring continues and reserve isn’t ages long…

Looking for some insight from recent hires and people within the airline. What are the junior bases/base one will most likely receive if hired. For the CRJ it seems DEN, COS, and FAT. ERJ seems to be DEN or SLC.

Second question is in regards to SEA, seattle. Seems that is a more senior base. Does anyone have experience with commuting from SEA to one of the above bases? Reason I ask is because I have family near Seattle so would have a place to stay and cheaper rent. Just curious, thanks!

As FO you can probably get SEA fairly soon, it is a 175 base only. As a CA forget about it, i have my bid in and i am few years out.

DEN is growing right now. It depends on equipment, CRJ has a much faster movement, and transitioning to the 175 after the CRJ is not as hard as going the other route.
DTW, MSP and ORD have been stagnant lately. I am in ORD and i am hoping for some movement. 5 years in and pretty much the plug CA on the 175 is getting old...

Do you think there's any hope of the 175 upgrade time going down with the extra planes being added, or for any other reason?

Also, this may have been asked before, but are the current junior captain dates skewed at all by things like direct entry captains?

I commute PAE to DEN, super easy. Used to have 3 flights per day and always had open seats. Plus it’s SkyWest metal. SeaTac probably is even easier with more airlines, I just live closer to PAE.

Genuinely had no idea, but that’s even better! Looking at it now, how’s DFW? How are the trips out of those two bases?

All AA flying CRJ700 only out of DFW, probably can hold out of training, Jr. domicile as well for FO and CA. If you want to live in AUS, I’d bid CRJ IAH initially, then continuously evaluate the movement out of both domiciles to pick what works best. You can bid to transfer each month, it should work out fairly well for your situation.

know it's a moving target, but how much time could be expected for a new hire DEN 175 fo to be on reserve?