BA has been tempoarily wet leasing 4/6 Finnair A320 for a couple of years now due to lack of capacity and pilots. New B787-10 /A350 and A320/321 NEO are continuing to be delivered.
A good airline and great passenger product.
Quite a shortage of crew beginning to show. BA advertising for Type rated A320 crew. Virgin Atlantic for B787/A330/350, not much success so far. Virgin only after experienced pilots as many routes operated with 2 flight crew. Neither airline employ S/Os as fully trained P2s required for many two pilot routes. Same for BA as all types including A380 operate two pilot routes.
BA pay is based on Company Seniority not by type flown, simplifying double training by not requiring to fly the largest type for top pay.
BA have recruited experienced pilots in the last few years directly as P2 on B777/787/and A380.All pilots furloughed due to Covid related early B747-400 retirement, are now back on flying duties on the various fleet types.