@ superfly perfectly makes sense.but can they hire expats now?i knw the period to use their services has been extended to 2013 june but is new hiring of expats for what so ever reason permitted?
Of course they (the airlines) can hire expats.
And you've answered your question yourself. The deadline would be further extended till 2015, and predictably will again get extended to 2018-20 etc and so on.