Command training bonds are found in Europe.
They are an excuse to bond an FO to the LHS on upgrade in order to justify the simulator command training which is mandatory for most Europe airlines.
Is Airlink going to provide such expensive command simulator course which is a pass/fail situation?
There is no point in moving on once you have a command until you have a minimum of 500hrs in command on that type of aircraft. In Europe terms that is often described as two winteres worth of experience. So a two year command bond is not the end of the world for a young newbie captain. A fleet change command shift, at the request of the company should not attract another command bond within the same time period as a previous one. However a fleet shift from turbo to jet could give rise to a new command bond. Many pilots would go along with that?
The idea that pilots will stick together is not short of ridiculous. It has been shown everywhere that at the end of the band wagon, pilots will go with their individual needs-mostly financial and career oriented. Just accept a command bond as being the sharp practice and get on with it. Once you have the command you will forget about it soon enough. Make the consolation to yourself that you could always go fully procedural on the airline. That would cost them a bomb and if you want to band together as a gang of brothers, that would be a more definite threat of action and an easily implemented one as well which would be unlikely to cost jobs in the retaliation of manament.