The UK and BA has a long history of fully or partially sponsored cadet schemes, which ended after 9/11. The rebirth of these schemes is very welcome - and helps meet a large recruitment requirement that can’t be guaranteed to meet by experienced pilots alone. Experienced pilots are more likely to join long haul which isn’t affected by the SPA training requirement on short haul anyway. EF pilots are still on the master seniority list and LGW was always a niche / unpopular posting anyway.