France is a beautiful country, to bad they have the French living in there.
Learn a second language, basic pillow talk English is not that difficult. 40% of the Belgium's are French, most of them refuse to speak another language, and especially not Flemish who is spoken by the majority of the country, not even our Queen find it needed to speak a few words in Flemish. It has something to do with the 'laziness of the French'. Why do we Flemish people speak 4 and most French only 1 ? Get over with it. The world has changed, people speak English in international affairs, not French. Having a local rule that makes airports French speaking only in 2010 is beyond decency and as you stated yourself, safety limits.
Not only the Brits speak English on their RT. If the French are really concerned about the safety aspect they would do like almost everybody in the world does: speak English while radio communicating in the air.
It's not the British arrogance, it's the French arrogance.