Arigold,
No personal insult was intended or directed. Unfortunately, this is the truth that most of the Expats faced at KF. You may try to hide it, but there are 30-40 odd expat pilots that were sent home, after so many promises were made.
It indeed is an ugly situation. Specially, when some of those expats that were laid off, gave up secure, well paying jobs to be part of the good times!
As for arrogance ... that should have been nipped in the bud (ie .. during assesment and interview). Airlines screen their candidates in many areas. They are not offered employment just because they have a flying license and experience. This is the professional way of sourcing pilots.
Sadly, in todays aviation environment, contracts keep changing. For the expat pilots as well as for the Indian pilots. I would like to remind you of the Indian DGCA ruling regarding 6 months notice to your Employer, if you are to vacate post. What happened to that?? There was clear evidence that the Employer had violated many of the contracts and the notice period was reduced to 30 days.
If you decide to work for a foreign airline, would you not want to be treated fairly and justly? How would you feel if your Employer broke every single promise that they made, after you joined the Company? Or are you a person who enjoys seeing people being thrown out on to the streets??
Think about it?? The truth unfortunately hurts and I do not want any pilot (French, Indian or any other nationality) to go through what that poor French guy went through!!