DaDog, I'm sorry, but phrases like 'chuck your toys' are exactly the sort of rudeness I mean. You wouldn't talk to me like that if we were face to face, so why do it on this board?
When inaccuracies are posted, by all means correct them - if you are certain of your facts. If you have a difference of opinion, by all means argue your corner, but if you can't do it without aggressive and provocative language then I'd rather you didn't do it at all. It's unhelpful, disrespectful of all the other users of this forum, and unnecessary, whatever your personal opinion of
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Johnnypharm there is no danger of BA not getting the numbers of DEPs that it needs, though the sources may not be what they were in the past. Any kind of direct-entry fATPL recruiting seems very unlikely to me, as BA have always preferred to have control over the training of their ab-initio recruits. They can always get the experienced DEPs to fill their short-term needs while they develop a replacement for the old Cadet system, should they decide that's the way they want to go.
Scroggs