Originally Posted by
CargoOne
It is very fair indeed. You always forget to count how much company has spent on screening, sim assessment, convertion course - groung and sim, crm/wet/fire/first aid etc and finally on the line training. If you put that all together 7,5k sounds very reasonable to make sure people don't jump in a few weeks. All airlines hr/flt ops depts full of stories when pilots have left just after the line training completetion just because there was a couple of hundred quid better offer pop up around the corner.
No my friend it is not fair. In fact since the beginning of aviation companies everysingle expense in training has been paid by the company. And taking into account that you have type+experience on type there is no point to bond DEFO.