KrazyKraut
BA needs people who challenge the old paradigm, come up with new ideas, and are dedicated on taking the company into the future.
Total BA guff - careful if you spout it too much BA will recruit as a manager!
Despite all the corporate spiel the realities of what BA want from their employees and in particular pilots have become painfully obvious in 14yrs of working for them..
BA do not want 3500 managers who also happen to be pilots.
They do want 'malleable' pilots who they can strap to the RHS (and many many years later the LHS) and fly them right to the legal maximums (and beyond if they can twist the CAA to up the anuual limit). They want max productivity at min cost (and that includes min training cost - min ground training, min sim time, min route training , first time passes, min recurrent training)
Ur right a lot of BA is still stuck in the 70's - but it aint the pilots. 850+ hours in the last year at plain time, and the shorthaul guys are well above 700pa now - more productivity to come.
BA will recruit OATS approved graduates because they want to!
- and because they will deliver the above productivity over the long term (less likely with a co/type hopping dep) at min cost.
-because they meet the standard and have a proven training ability which will deliver min training cost.