Overall on balance it sounds like a great scheme. I see lots of posts about the employment being for 9 years on a reduced FO salary and then getting onto a DEFO salary. Not sure if this is correct but what is stopping an FO building a say 2500 hours over say 3 years and then leaving Virgin to take at DEFO salary in another airline. Yes, you would forfeit your bond repayments but the DEFO salaries if competitive at other airlines would offset this amount? Or are cadets legally tied to Virgin for the 9 year period and leaving the scheme would incur financial penalty?