Skipness - I agree with offshoring leading to a hollowing out of the middle classes and all the social ills that it causes, but to keep the discussion roughly on topic, why will Norwegian using cheap Thai labour cause problems to *Norwegian* later ? If there's a really abysmal reaction by passengers, then Norwegian can think about improved training, but Ryanair seem to do OK with their cheap eastern / southern Europe cabin crew.
A very important point that,
davidjohnson6, the "
hollowing out of the middle classes", is a more significant comment than perhaps intended.
A country with a shrinking middle class, or a "squeezed middle" to use politicians' jargon, is a country in decline. It is no so-incidence that the up-and-coming countries that we need to trade with have rapidly growing middle classes.
The middle classes have the discretionary expenditure, so an industry such as aviation, particularly the no-frills sector, depends to a large
extent on a prosperous middle class. The poor can't afford to fly, the rich get about in business/private jets.
By the way,
Skipness One Echo, apologies for being nosey, but where were you born?