As far as BA goes certainly when I was there you could live where you wanted (within reason, including overseas) as long as you were prepared to spend your own money to get yourself to/from the appropriate London base.
I can’t see BA setting up regional bases just to facilitate that lifestyle (and overseas bases might well expose the company to unwelcome local taxes and social charges….).
Don’t forget BA had UK regional bases back in the day (until the very early 1990s?) ….you’d have to be able to show massive cost advantages to force the company to go back to that model…
Unless something massive has changed behind the scenes if I was planning on joining BA now I would assume it’s London based or nothing for the foreseeable future.
Last edited by wiggy; 20th September 2025 at 11:51.