Unfortuantely Tess, BA maintain that commutting is your choice. They stipulate that you must live within 2 hours of base and that would be their reply if you ever mentioned that. Again, sad but true.
With regards to being treated differently, that is so true. But more by the management than crew. At LGW, we no longer have a proper canteen and area for airport stand by crew, all display stands for the new club world, etc are up at LHR only, staff shop has gone and as for the quiet room, I'd be better off sleeping in the car park! When I started 3 years ago, we occupied all 4 floors of JB House, now we have the 4th floor and OPS on the 3rd, down sizing???
I love my job and flying for the company, just that some areas are so badly led, starts affect morale.