The point I was making was not that he wanted to skip his bond but rather that the company is taking his entire salary for the next 3 months leaving him nothing to live on.
He is quite prepared to sit down and come up with a reasonable payment plan.
Seems rather harsh to me. Also they won;t take it pre-tax as the taxman does not count a training bond as 'training required to do the job', go figure?!
Also worth noting that he paid £20K upfront this £8K was for line training or some crap like that. He will have paid around £28K for a 757 rating. But at least he's managed to get a job with an airline that repects pilots now so thats something.