Originally Posted by
Aero1900
I do not know if there is anything in our contract preventing signing bonuses, but I do know that the unions at all the regional airlines tried to prevent signing bonuses and they all failed to stop them. I think ever single regional in the country has some version of a signing bonus.
This. Including ALPA. If the CBA doesn't explicitly prohibit it (our does not) then it can be (and has been) done.