It's sad that so many locals are sitting around but as far back as I can remember Air Seychelles have never employed junior fleet first officers and I'm quite sure that they never will. They have employed direct entry commanders on the jet fleet and have also staffed the position of operations manager with both British and South African pilots in the past. I'm not sure of the parentage of the present incumbent. I notice that the sands have drawn at least one senior captain fairly recently but I'm afraid that a flying job in paradise for an expatriate is pretty much a Tinker Bell these days. The place certainly isn't what it used to be before the revolution.