As with any expat arrangement, the contracts will reflect the current needs of the carrier, referenced to the absence of suitably qualified local pilots, and said airline’s ability (and connectedness) to justify same to Ministry in Charge of Foreign Corruption and Domestic Purity, absent any prior connections by marriage, blood relation, or erstwhile dalliance, convenient or otherwise.
That notwithstanding, the local pilot population will always demand termination of ‘expert’ pilots at the earliest opportunity, said opportunity being their first landing that does not, in fact, burst more than 50 percent of available tires, or frighten the majority of their passengers into considering transport to destination by alternative terrestrial means.
Call me cynical. It’s a tough world out there, my heart goes out to the aspiring pilots that put up with it all in the name of aviation. Ne’er was there a crueler mistress.