5 Years & 42K for a bond is ludicrous! No wonder they are desperate
You have just been given an insight to the mindset. Absorb it.
Staff retention is now more than just a serious concern. So instead of analyzing what is the issue - pay vs cost of living, rosters, fatigue, treatment of employees to name but a few - and correcting it, what is the 'solution'? Bring out a bigger stick.
The bond was 3 years/$36k until recently. But pilots were leaving not just at the completion of their bond, but also
prior to it. So the 'fix' in their mindset is to bond people for longer, for more money.
That'll work.
