Artie Fufkin
We're all European now (until the Daily Mail gets it's way) so we're all free to live and work wherever we want within the EU. I would suggest that with unemployment as it is in Spain Monarch found it possible to get multilingual cabin staff, willing and eager to work, for the same price, or less, than monolingual staff from UK.
If people in the UK bothered to learn a second (European) language they may be more able to compete for these sorts of jobs on a level playing field.