I believe you are also right that most would have no objection to expat pilots / SA pilots being employed as long as they fulfilled the residence and licence requirements.
Sorry. I object. There are plenty of qualified Australian pilots about.
South African pilots are cheap and are purely being used as anti-inflationary.
I can't believe Australian pilots individually or collectively through unions aren't objecting to this.
There are thousands of Australian pilots qualified for the Virgin positions. Let's save our immigration policies for real skills shortages- say South African mining engineers.
