Reaheater
I suggest you you crawl back under your stone and go back to sleep, this story surfaced weeks if not months ago, some bored journalist has obviously been trawling through Pprune archives.
I for one have never heard any low cost airline pilots saying anything different to anybody else andf it is rather stupid to question their training as it is no different from the rest of us. What I have noticed is a general worsening of RT discipline throughout the industry and the consequent additional pressure put on Air Traffic Controllers having to constantly keep calling people, which leads to tempers becoming a little short.
As for BA being on its last legs don't you believe it with the additional lower fares being introduced very soon we are going to be able to compete much more competitively with the so called low cost outfits, your costs are going to start rising with bigger overall size, more bases, aircraft etc. At the end of the day nobody in Europe has a network as large as BA and when the numbers start going up on the long haul this will produce even more revenue stream that the low costs simply don't have.