Originally Posted by
RexBanner
Take that with a pinch of salt. There aren’t that many pilots on the Airbus ahead of me and I’m not getting a move in 2020. Having said that we are short in the RHS of the Airbus, more so Heathrow than Gatwick. I would guess from my time up the road that the compliment in LHR is at least 40 pilots shy if not more.
I count just over 100 successful internal moves away from A320 FO positions, either to long haul fleets or commands on type. Then there will be age and ill health retirements, resignations due to people realising BA is not for them, people wanting part time, and you yourself say they are at least 40 FO positions short at Heathrow. A minimum requirement of 200 new A320 FOs would be very easy to reach. 250 is therefore probably not a bad estimate for trainers to have been told.