Just for your info, I'm not going there, Im trying to move up north.
But in the netherlands (and I guess also other country's) there have been lots of cases where pilots were leaving a company were they signed a service bond, refused to pay and the court ruled in their favour, service bond or not. So this is why some companys turned th system around. First the pilot pays and if (s)he leaves there is no riskfor the company getting the monny from the pilot
PD