I’m not sure what you mean by have to hire US pilots.

By the way this nothing to do with the original thread.

While it may be discomforting the rule in place in India, that an Indian must be in every cockpit. I kind of see why this is the case. You wouldn’t want a key, not to mention safety critical workgroup of your flag carrier being controlled by foreign nationals regardless if that country was an ally of yours or not….same reason that a foreign individual or entity cannot hold more than 49% of any US airline. Now if we can only get the IT firms to think like that.

Listen I get it, it’s complex. I was willing to work in developing world Asia to fly an A320 or 737 for what now would seem like quarters on the dollar….but I tell you this: it’s certainly was a LOT more than I was making as a flight instructor or as a first officer for any US regional at the time. You see I knew people who had access to multiple passports and visas were able to get into right seats of 73’s and 320’s at 250…..spend like 5 years there come back to US and be seen as more competitive than me because in those same 5 years I could only draw on CRJ or EMB 145 experience.
These types of rules put in place by politicians or people appointed by politicians well WELL THEY MATTER.