Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Flexjet lost their case in Texas due to fraud:
They promised the man a type rating and didn’t give him one. THAT voided the contract. And I’m not saying that some or all of these contracts are conscionable, I’m saying that many of them ARE legal and even signing and reneging on contracts that courts later void can hurt your career.
The main point of the FlexJet verdict was that there was no valuable consideration, so there was no contract. Not what was promised.
If they had given the type rating, the contract would've been much stronger. Now it was just an SIC gig, and the court agreed that was not worth anything outside FlexJet.
That's a common 135 training contract. And that one wasn't enforceable because it gave no value to the employee outside FlexJet.