Basing people in outstation would mean comlying with the local labour laws
This is a
Commuting Contract discussion, foreign bases are totally different. Commuting employees are mostly immune from home labour regulations.
However, a commuting employee may, or may not, have to pay tax in his home country. And paying that tax is fair enough since he/she is making use of roads/schools/hospitals etc....
Dont forget the famous money carroussel here...
Point 1: The strategy for building an economy by increasing population and hence consumer spending, only works if the expat employee stays long enough to recover the costs of recruiting and training him/her. At the moment they dont stay very long.
Point 2: Plus the potential cost to a national of the national airline failing to meet it's stated goals, must far outwiegh an expatriot employee's economic contribution of rent and groceries???