Ok, so lets say Myer or David Jones decided that they would recruit all their floor staff from Bangladesh, and pay them local equivalent wages of a stall holder in a Dhakar market, and their excuse was that they buy their garments from Bangladesh, so that is why they hire from there... How long do you think it would be before there was a picket line out the front of the stores?
Before anyone starts about Jeffstar flying to these countries so he should be able to recruit from them, what percentage of Phuket passengers are outbound tourists, and what percentage of the seats sold are Thai locals coming to holiday in Sydney? Shouldnt that percentage be the legal crewing percentage for cabin crew?
If it is legal, what is stopping them hiring tech crew from other countries? Just the Aussie ATPL requirement on the AOC I think. 89 showed us how easy that rule is to bypass if you know the right politicians. One thing the Qantas group does well is grease the right palms in Canberra.