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Bend alot
It would single % numbers of pilots that would not jump ship for Qantas or Virgin at 6 months or even under 24 months, if type rating was paid by a company. That's what got this experiment started - airline feeders not getting a return on an "investment".
Even with written agreements many pilots moved on to bigger and better within months of completing training - within weeks of passing the training CV's were updated to the airlines, so that seems no intent of compliance with the agreement in writing or not.
This is 100% on the money. Pilots are their own worst enemy in this regard. The demise of "handshake agreements" because nobody honours them anymore. If everyone out there had a little bit more integrity then perhaps we wouldn't be subject to salary sacrificing ratings or being sent offshore without pay.