Originally Posted by JohnBurke

Ethiopian and the authority there issue their own certificate, which is not actually a pilot certificate, and is not ICAO -recognized. They pay native pilots a fraction of what foreign pilots make, and they use and abuse them. One of the controls that enable them to do this is the certification they're given is their own...the pilots cant' go somewhere else and convert it, or use it anywhere else. The first officer on the Ethiopian 737 Max mishap was not a certificated pilot. Ethiopia has minimal regulation and no enforcement. Duty and rest rules are nil. Abuse of crew is well known and the norm, there. Ethiopian is about profit, bar nothing. The CAA looks the other way on everything. Corruption is rampant on the government side, and on the company side of the house.