rsoman,
Not sure which airline you flew on, but at least in our case the following is true.....
this might be interresting to many of you here, the impression in the market given is "there is one level of service from India to the gulf and another level of service from the Gulf to UK".
But we do actually have language lines for F/A's, so there will be at least two Indian FA's rostered to operate Indian services.
Mutt.