Djehennah will freeze over before any local (AAR is considered as such) has to assume any kind of accountability or responsibility around the ME if something turns ugly.
That's what they hire expats for, not only to do the job, but just as much to do the walk. AS watch out!
I said it on another thread: Two men are enough in the cockpit preparation phase. The augmenting chaps need a SEAT to get out of the way of active crew, cabin crew, ground crew, mechanics and finally boarding passengers (this in itself sounds enough of a disturbance already ....). Once on taxi, and ONLY on request of the active crew, one or two can be present on flight deck as a back-up.
This brings back the whole issue of seats for augmenting crew, and they obviously need to be right behind the cockpit, as to be able to call in the guys if deemed needed in the T/O and Ldg phases (I won't get into the embarrassing and safety compromising issue of crew bunk placement ....)
It seems that not even safety can beat greed around here.
