Hey just for your info I do a HKG/SYD once a month roughly, The FSM`s will go all the way to SYD, as will the CSS`s, 2 LHR Seniors and 2 LHR Cabin Crew will aswell and the IFBT, the reduction will be in the HKG based crew not the western crew, the reason they have national crew onboard (apart from cost saving) is to be culturally aware of the passengers on board (tho i dunno why the need for SYD based crew is the same as say HKG, LOS, NRT, DEL, BOM etc) Therefor if yo took all the LHR Seniors ad Cabin Crew off you wouldnt have any aisle crew out there representing the British contingent of pax. Afterall it is a British carrier...I am looking forward to having more SYD based crew, love flying with them, got a few good friends outta that base too.