Why should an operator pay for a type-rating without bond if they don't have to?
As a passanger I appreciate that airline companies try to reduce cost. If I want to help others and can offord it I give money to a type-rating scholarship fund, the red-cross or something. If I want to fly, I choose Ryanair and not Samaritian Airlines. After all, if you have an increase in fares fewer pilots are to be employed.
I know that this industry is not at its peak but I just don't understand why anyone is blaming the operators and/or the pilots. If you spent £30.000 why wouldn't you pay for a type-rating? That might be the only way to actually get something out of the money you already spent. The pilot, the operator or the passengers don't mind. Fellow unemployed pilots? Well, we do have market economy after all.