The fact that payment is cash only merely adds to this Third World farce. As tooLow says, buy elsewhere!
It's just another reason why people will not leave their home Countries to work here. If the airline/government is serious about retaining workers and attracting new blood to keep the economy growing, they're going about it the wrong way.
Interesting to see if BA & Virgin crew have been told? I guess we'll all know in a few weeks.....
Harry