Just to clarify, if you are a line holder and your last leg is a dhd back to base, you can skip the dhd. If you are on reserve, you cannot just skip the dhd. Almost every time you call and ask not to do the dhd on reserve, the company will deny it.

The one way that we used to skip the dhd on reserve was to wait until the flight pushed back and left. But it seems that scheduling still uses the "you might have to work the flight" excuse to not let you skip the dhd on reserve.