UAX,
You are right there are more Brits, Canadians, Aussies, Kiwis and Yarpies than say Americans. Why is that, it must be the blatant discriminatory recruitment practices of EK!!
Alternatively it could be because a lot of them came long ago due to circumstances. A bunch of Aussies came after the dispute in the late 80s when they were all fired. Even more of them came when Ansett went down the tubes in 2002. The Brits have come in dribs and drabs over the years, the big in-flux of Canuks was when C3 went down and then with Air Canada's problems.
Now it seems that a few yanks want to come. In the past, the US market wouldn't have lowered themselves to the level of going to the sandpit for anything. ALPA was keeping the salaries nice and high and trying to get the golden goose to lay its last egg. So its no use bleating that the jobs have gone in the past to certain nationalities, we ate the crumbs from your table and you laughed in our faces, now the boot is on the other foot.
However, I'll put your mind at rest, we have over 70 nationalities and recent hires have come from Colombia, Mexico, The Carribean, Brazil and Ethiopia in increasing numbers. The Canuks are now the 2nd largest nationality here (oops there goes a plank of your argument) and most of the recent hires have come from North and South America.
So playing the nationality/race card starts to look like you are making excuses for your own performance at interview.
The Stats in Early 2005 were (thanks to Alphaprot):
British 205
Australian 147
Canadian 137
UAE 79
NZ 72
S. African 68
Swedish 39
German 36
Swiss 36
Belgian 26
American 25
Malaysian 25
Irish 23
Indian 20
Italian 15
Norwegian 15
Mexican 14
Zimbabwean 12
Pakistani 11
Austrian 10
Greek 10
Danish 9
Dutch 9
Bahraini 8
Maltese 8
Yugoslav 7
Egyptian 6
Jamaican 6
French 5
Kenyan 5
Omani 5
Algerian 4
PNG 4
Croatian 3
Jordanian 3
Trinidadian 3
Brazilian 2
Czech 2
Finn 2
Hungarian 2
Iranian 2
Portuguese 2
Slovene 2
SriLankan 2
Turkish 2
Bahamian 1
Bulgarian 1
Chilean 1
Colombian 1
Ecuadorean 1
Ethiopian 1
Filipino 1
Grenadian 1
Luxembourger 1
Nepalese 1
Qatari 1
Seychellois1
Slovakian 1
Tongan 1
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