crewmeal
Virgin do not put you out to grass as you so eloquently put it (lol) once you are over 35, there are plenty of CC there that are over that age my son being one of them! One thing they do not get like BA crews do though is these £900 trip allowances when they do a Tokyo and I know that Tokyo is not the only route that BA get those enhanced allowances on.
They also dont get these long layovers down route like BA do. They work just as hard with less crew on flights - if they can do it so should you!!!!!