Originally Posted by orbitmic

I fully agree with you that with lower wages, the quality will go down, I just disagree that it has anything to do with nationality. If anything, given the wages BA will pay, one could argue that our only chance to get qualified BA crew in coming years will precisely be if they recruit them from lower wage countries as they might then manage to attract decently qualified people aiming for a change of life at a salary point that would get you students normally applying for pub jobs in the UK. This has consistently been the case with immigration to date: you get people who are the most qualified accepting jobs that are really beneath their station.

More generally, maybe I'm over-sensitive and it is not what you meant, but as Tafflyer mentioned, it is also hard to dissociate that argument with some unsavoury messages heard in recent months in the current political climate.

Either way, what we can perhaps all agree on is that being a crew member requires skills and training and that those skills and training should have a decent salary attached to them. If an airline does not offer that, they will struggle to recruit the right people as well as to get the best out of them once they are in the place.