Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You will be assigned shadow time for the last week of the month and probably for a few days ibto the next month. You want to cram as much time as possible ibto the shadow time. The trip only has to touch the shadow. If you are in a category with 12 day trips you want a 12 day trip in that shadow ect.. If your shadow extends into the following month you want another 12 day trip touching it. If your a domestic pilot you want to try and get two 5 day trips touching that week.
In IQ my captain said (and several times in this thread it’s been mentioned) that if you bid a trip (over days you request off in the shadow period) that scheduling will put a trip on those days and say you bid for it even though you requested it off. This runs counter to my understanding that bidding in the shadow period is independent of your training schedule. I mean I understand they want to get your training done in that footprint but I also thought you could request days off in that period and that was a separate entity from your shadow bid in PBS. Just curious. I ended up flying on most of the days I requested off for OE but I smoked my 15 day shadow period bid with max credit and had my best month at delta pay wise.