Are 200-hr, piston, integrated students a safer bet than a non-BA-TR'd captain who wants to fly for BA?
KrazyKraut, BA are not recruiting integrated graduates
instead of type-rated experienced people, but
as well as those people. You surely don't believe that BA are just going to take 24 people this year, do you?
BA need to spread the ages of their recruits, or they end up with 'age bulges' which later bring 'retirement bulges', which are bad for planning your training programme. They are also one of the few remaining airlines which really do like the idea of employing a pilot from graduation to retirement. However, they never have, and probably never will, recruited only fATPLs, and the fATPLs they have recruited have not been exclusively from Oxford (or any other particular school).
Scroggs