Hi all. Firstly I want to stress that I got nothing to do with all of this, just reading on this boring afternoon.
Just my two cents. I used to work for a setup flying F28’s in sunny South Africa around 2003. And gues what - some Australian Pilots came and worked for us. And the funny thing is there where lots of guys around (even within the company) that could have done the job.
But - the Australians where prepared to except worse working conditions. For example living conditions and duty times.
Funny they did not moan about expats and locals and so on. Simply they needed a job and excepted what came with it.
Just want to point that out. I don’t really worry to much about things like that , as I strongly believe everybody makes there own bed and sleeps in it.
Anyway - good luck and enjoy the flying !!!!