Originally Posted by Cubdriver

Thanks a ton, JB and Obi.

It's a huge disservice to others, highly misleading when people come here and say

• companies never take these contracts seriously and just about never collect on one of them

• just sign any contract you want because you'll be skipping happily along to Delta Airlines soon anyway

• these contracts are not based on valid contract law, I heard that Right to Work laws makes any contract invalid. You can skip town and not pay because they can't come after you, it's all just for show.



Rather, the exact opposite is the case-

• they do matter in a purely ethical, moralistic sense of keeping your word

• they are legally binding in most circumstances

• the companies do hire lawyers to come after pilots who break them

• some companies actually misuse such agreements as a basis for suing unlucky pilots who are fired for no cause or fault of their own