Beazlebub, you seem to spend a lot of time posting long-winded justifications for airlines charging for training/type rating etc.... Do you perhaps work in the industry?
The airline industry? Yes! The commercial flight training industry? No!
Ignoring the reasons for airlines doing what they are doing for a moment, do you agree with the practice of charging for type ratings?
No. But the point is, you cannot ignore the reasons behind the practice. By providing the history I would hope it helps with the understanding.
While I agree that a desire "not to get their fingers burnt" played a part in airlines moving from funding training, to bonding it and then making the cadet pay it all, this does somewhat ignore the fact that many are now not only charging their but making handsome profit on top! This has nothing to do with risk and everything to do with increasing their margins.
They are commercial businesses, not charities or institutions of academia. Their entire
raison d'être is to make a profit. When they used to pay for this type of training it would do absolutely nothing for their margins when a few individuals availed themselves of it and then sold it on to somebody else. When they "bonded", it did nothing for their margins when a few individuals broke their contracts resulting in legal costs or fiscal write offs. The new reality in the world of "lo-co" aviation is of survival in those margins. If your competitors are making more profit than you are, then you are operating at a disadvantage that is likely to prove an existential threat eventually.
About "Qualified" or not "Qualified". Some companies diesn't care if you already Type Rated and they can ask you to REDO it:
Yes, but again this has always been something of a fallacy. An airline recruiting a type rated pilot quite reasonably expects said pilot to have significant experience to go with that rating. In other words, they expect you to have been type rated by another airline in accordance with a structured training programme leading to experience with that airline. This type of experience should result in a low input risk for the airline. This is worlds away from somebody with low experience speculatively buying a type rating with no subsequent relevant experience, and then expecting an airline to accept this without any input from the new company. Far from from being advantageous, most companies would simply regard it as a big "red flag!"