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No the problems NAS have had were intially caused more by Boeing and rolls Royce causing massive sub charter and diluting the product badly. No one wants a wamos 330 turning up when they expected the IFE of 787.
As for level ,I never really saw them as competition because they weren’t on many routes we did .....IAG more so, hence the shoehorning of another seat on the back row of the Gatwick 777s....but that’s for the commercial department - we are all pilots and have more in common than petty tribal rivalry