I have no problem finding fluent english - and as I speak three languages albeit not spanish I fear - I am usually impressed at the language skills of the general population in comparison with English people. No I think that you are far too general there.
Sorry but here you are demostrating little knowledge of Spain . Spain is the european country with lesser fluent english speaking people between the general population of all europe .
As I extract you are in the airline business and contact with people on the business in Spain , that of course speak the universal language of business and aviation in particular . That's not representative of the general population ,trust me . Despite every child learning english at school , very few do it with native teachers , and only a very reduce number of them refine its language skills outside school . Normaly the maximun you could expect from school education is a basic understanding of writen english . Very hardly they will understand what CNN or BBC says .
Comparison with england isn't fair , because they already speak the universal language and don't care about learning languages , but UK/USA are special cases.
I have to say too that I have never ever heard the Granny FA thing - but it
The "complaints" about granny or old female FA at IB , specially in long haul , it's omnipresent in airlines forums , likes this one .
You can make a simple "search" .
but the pensions hole is global in organisations that offer such things and I do not know what arrangements Iberia have.
Don't confuse the UK/USA with the rest of the world . In mainland Europe ,specifically Spain , the pensions are public, and are financed every month by a deduction on the salary .
The salary one gets it's the difference between the "salario bruto" (brute salary) - "Seguridad Social" ( public pension fund apportation + public health apportation) = "Salario neto" (net salary the employ gets ) .
When one ask for work, usually ask for his neto payment , after SS (Social Security).
It's impossible for a business to function without paying the SS part to the state . If a given company (big or small) don't pay to the state the SS deduction withing 3 months , your company gets very heavely fined, under inspection and subject to expropiations .
Everybody here knows that the first payment a company must do ,it's the social security payment. It's a crime not to do so .
The BA situation in Spain is imposible.After a short time, months, the company would be taken over by the Social Security agency , and forced to pay very heavy fines plus interest. The managment could go to jail in a short time for this .
The strange situation in the UK and USA with holes in the companies pension funds are unthinkable in most of the developed world.
How many years of profit for BA are the more than 2 Billions Pounds ( more than 3 Billions Euros !!!) ?
Do not be put off by opinions that differ from yours - that is what Flyertalk is all about.
That's funny . We the latins love retoric confrontations ... .