Training within an airline is a cost, with a bond, maybe, but a cost.
Quite, A
cost. A
Business cost.
Which is why it is morally indefinsible and utterly WRONG to charge the trainee for this. In ANY way. A properly run company doesn't even need to bond because it suffers so little wastage due to the loyalty of its employees...
Fuel is a cost too, so is maintenance. Are we to be bamboozled into subsidising the airline for this too in future?
When this industry regains it's sense of morality (Ha! Pigs might fly!) it may also regain its place as one of the highly regarded places of work. Right now it seems to me that airlines are on the moral level of rapists and kiddie-fiddlers with these obscene con tricks and rip-offs that are being perpetrated on desperate rich kids, while the dedicated hours-builders of yesteryear remain in the weeds, unable to compete.
Ps. A type rating on any of the medium sized jets is obtainable at something like 13,000Eu at a major and very impessive training facility I know in Holland...
The airlines involved in this style of training are guilty of nothing less than fraud, imho.