Originally Posted by
truckflyer
Well there was a time they did not want Dutch, British or Italian, because as soon as they got better job offers they left, if you treat your employees like crap you get very little loyalty in return.
There was guys paying back their TR 1000 Euro a month for 18 months, living on crumbles, and than they still bonded you for another 18 months, despite you had paid them back 18.000 Euros, the TR cost them nothing, as was provided by Airbus as part of the aircraft purchases, and even if they had paid for it, it would not cost 36.000 Euros, but that's what they bonded you for over 3 years that time.
It went so far that they threaten to not release security reference letters to new employees if you left, which is not legal, as people were escaping as soon as they got half decent offers from other companies.
Excuse me splitting hairs, but it's never free, it's just part of the deal. If they didn't have the type ratings included, then they can get a cheaper deal. Assuming 12 pilots per aircraft, even at 20k it would cost 240k. Airbus isn't a charity.