Indeed Indian Airlines chose this option because of the poor PCNs found at a lot of their destinations.
A good friend of mine who was in a position to influence the specification of the A320s that his company bought quite a few years ago told me that they looked at this option since some of their destinations (Greek Islands for example) had a PCN problem also.
It was quickly discovered that the purchase of several good dinners for those selected airfield operators then allowed them to land "on an occasional basis". This was a lot cheaper than paying for the huge increase in fuel burn that carrying 8 mainwheels around all the time would have caused!