Originally Posted by
CaptYoda
I agree that jumping ship from regional to regional just for a signing bonus is unethical and will require explaining during an interview in the future. And for the record, I am not advocating anyone should do that at all.
However, someone who signs a training contract is also free to leave when they wish to do so. They just have to pay back the "calculated" cost of training.
So I suppose the wholly owned give people the option to either take the signing bonus or decline? The only problem with that is that it becomes immediately clear that the applicant has reservations of being on the property beyond the two-year mark if they don't accept the bonus.
The difference between what PSA offers and say, what Mesa offers is that at PSA, you can turn down the bonus and then you are free to leave any time you want. At an airline like Mesa, where they have an
actual training bond, you can't accept the job without also accepting the training bond. But all of this is besides the point that anyone coming to a WO is either new to the industry in which case there isn't much of a reason to leaving before your 2 years or until you have 1,000 SIC, or this isn't their first airline and they've done their research. Either scenario makes whatever point you're trying to prove a moot one.