Leaving before your bond is up

[asecretidentity]

I have read all the posts with a great deal of interest so thank you all for taking the time to reply, it seems that it’s a point many have had to think about.

Perhaps I didn’t make it clear in my initial post that I had no intention of leaving my company without paying off the remaining bond. I signed on the line and got the break, rating and training in return for x number of years commitment. If I am to break that by leaving early then it is only right that I fulfill my part of the bargain and repay what’s left.

I believe that a bond for your type rating is perfectly reasonable. Why should an airline spend a small fortune training you on type to have you leave in short order taking the rating with you? My company never asked me for a penny up front, I don’t have anything taken from my wages and when the times up, its up, I can leave when I want and won’t have anything to pay.

This is, or rather was a moral dilemma on my part. I hope the initial post didn’t come across as one of the far too common type of posting from some people who don’t seem to want to work for a living, or a venting of some injustice, it wasn’t. More it’s a realisation that I could earn a lot more money with another airline.

I think, as I suspected I might, have answered my own question, with your help of course. I do really love my job, I am the cat with the cream in that aircraft and I owe it to the people who gave me my break, and to myself to stay, learn all I can and when I have fulfilled my part of the bargain, and only then, should I consider moving on.

So that’s what I’m going to do.

Thanks again.

asecretidentity