I used to work for an airline like this one, it was called Air Niugini and you could just replace every reference to AA with PX and it would read just as true.
They sack expats for not localising 'fast enough' for their liking and then the fact that there were no locals even vaguely clever enough to take over comes forcefully to light.
And anyone who has worked long in these types of countries(13 years in my case) knows that absolutely nothing stops the corruption.
PNG unions wail with the same anti expat mantra and yet standby and do nothing when their own people drive the company into the ground, thats ok though 'cause while mayhem abounds they all have all four feet in the trough!
Let it die because nothing you do will slow it's death by much.....and it'll teach em a lesson. They'll learn nothing by being constantly bailed out and when the conditions set for conditional funding are so politically unacceptable to people who can barely add 2+2 and come up with 4 what more can you expaect.
Chuck.
Please give us another Airline....we broke this one.