Originally Posted by
lucille
Everywhere else in the world, nationals are employed preferentially.
I have to correct this statement, although I get what your trying to say the way in which you are saying it might be misunderstood as racist.
In the USA, UK (insert other generic western nation) Nationals are most certainly not employed preferentially to non nationals, once you have the right to live and work without necessarily being a nationally or having a passport then everyone is treated equally.
The BIG difference is that in most western nations (apart from the USA where some Australians were sponsored by airlines to come and work) airlines do not sponsor work visas for pilots because they have enough available domestically and don't need overseas workers.
FYI In the USA when the furloughs started they did not terminate the employment of the Australians on company sponsored work visas ahead of American nationals. I am well aware of what happened at Singapore and Korean, so there you have it some countries do it one way and others do it another.