You're absolutely right there NG Fellow. Lots of us came to FD with masses amounts of NG experience, some even IRE/TRE too. We only needed a few sim sessions, barely touched groundschool and very limited line traing and they still slapped a 3 year $24k bond on us. A lot of us grumbled at it but accepted as we wanted the job but as DHC6 said, it wasn't for him and he walked.
Iver, as for why people might be going to FD and not EK, maybe they have been put off by all the EK moaning threads on this forum. It must have made some people think twice?!
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