To those who feel that Ryan pilots need to pay for their new types- Training is a cost of doing business. That is a necessary part of aviation. If you buy new equipment, presumably because they are more efficient and/or have a greater capacity then you do so because it makes you potentially more profitable. You then have to have crews to fly them;planes don't do well on their own (no matter how much management and nerd engineers would like to think so). Why on earth would you take your most experienced crews and toss them on the street unless you were trying to bust a union? The more experienced the crew, the less training costs will be for the conversion.
Those that would even consider paying for training, especially in the normal course of business are, to put it mildly, fools. If the company was paying for you to learn to fly then you might have a case for a training bond. But this isn't even close. This is a requirement for FR due to a change in fleet and, as such, has been factored into their budget. If these are new aircraft then Boeing is even paying for a certain number of crews per aircraft to be trained. ZERO COST to the company.
Yeah if it looks like dog sh## and smells like dog sh## then I don't have to taste it to know that it is dog sh##, particularly if the dog is standing there, panting.