Originally Posted by
sflpilot
This industry is so backwards. This whole returning income that you’ve been taxed on if you leave for whatever reason before a certain time is insane. If an athlete gets a signing bonus they don’t give it back if they leave the team for whatever reason. But pilots are stupid and agree to all of this.
So if a team gives a player a $20 million singing bonus, but in the first year the player decides he doesn't like the team and leaves for the other one breaking his contract he gets to keep his bonus? That's news to me.