It just goes to show how fickle the job market is.
Only 6 short months ago John Monks was at the Flyer flight training show saying that BA would not be recruiting anyone with a frozen ATPL for the foreseeable future. I guess 6 months *is* the foreseeable future in this industry…
I remember him saying that the order of preference was:
1) Candidates that are experienced and rated on the type they are being recruited to.
2) Candidates that are experienced on other types.
3) Integrated graduates.
He went on to say that as there is an abundance of candidates that fit in to categories 1 & 2, there would be no recruitment of low-houred people for a quite some time.
What does this tell us?
Are experienced candidates in short supply or is BA just not that appealing to many of them?
Either way, recruitment of low-houred pilots is good news for all wannabes.