Definitely a sad trend, as to me one of the cool things about AY have always been the Finnish speaking crews. Used to live in YYZ for 12 years and would fly back home to visit with AY quite often. Boarding the plane made you feel closer to home already.
But nostalgic thoughts aside, I have noticed a lot of foreign crews on different routes especially during the last year, from HKG to BUD to LED to VNO, etc, etc.. And sorry... it really sucks!
The foreign crews could be trained to perfection (giving the benefit of the doubt here) - but part of AY identity will be lost forever.