WWW you use the argument that it's better to be in this Easy scheme than paying up front at BACX and being paid less.
BUT what's to stop BACX and friends introducing a similar scheme. You pay for a F27 rating up front and we'll pay you back over 5 years. But hey guess what? We'll actually pay you a lesser salary so that in effect we don't have to repay any of the type rating AND we've got you bonded for 5 years AND all of the training risk falls on you. BONDED WITH YOUR OWN MONEY!!!
Surely you must conceed that companies introducing these sort of schemes are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. I find it difficult to believe that someone in an airline flight crew position would condone any behaviour by a company that lessens the conditions of new-hires in THEIR OWN COMPANY. Or is it a case of "I'm alright Jack"?
Would you continue to argue the virtues of such a scheme if every operator in the UK adopted such? It has also crossed my mind that as an employee of said company your motives may not always be as genuine as they appear. Command assessment coming up perhaps? Toeing the management line? I hope it isn't true.