Originally Posted by
clvf88
It might be nonsense, but its true.
EDIT - To be clear, you get.determined as LH suitable or not. That doesn't mean you'll be a assigned a LH fleet, just that you can be. And it certainly doesn't imply that the 'cream' are all being sent LH.
Long Haul will slowly over the years degrade your skills due to the fact you perform about 1/5th of the sectors you do on Short Haul. Short Haul is a proving ground, where the less experienced get 5 times more exposure to operational decision making, crosswinds, marginal weather (etc the list is long)
The likelihood is once you get put into a LH fleet at BA, you will probably never leave. It is therefore important that LH takes the most experienced DEP's for the wide bodies. So essentially recruitment are saying to anyone who is offered short haul only "You have all the skills but lack the experience" or "You have the experience but the skills need some work"
It's up to the applicant to choose which assessment was made!