The recruitment is (predictably) F/O's. Recent twist is direct recruitment of low houred pilots direct onto the Jungle jet or RJ.
Why is this information relevant?
The majority of leavers are jet F/O's. The company is holding Dash 8 F/O's to their two year initial engagement freezes, thereby saving on double training costs. Also keeping those pilots on their lower salary scale
Therefore there are plenty of jet F/O vacancies to be filled. Hence F/O recruitment to the jet.
There aren't many Captains leaving; Some Dash 8 Captains, but no jet skippers. The pressure on vacancies internally is a lack of command seats. Secondees occupy command slots. If a secondee is able to achieve a command in LON then surely it isn't too much to ask that they return to mainline to take up that slot? The alternative means that there is every prospect of demotions AND enforced moves. A lot of the displaced pilots are very senior on the BACX list.
Why not place BACX pilots on the bottom of the master seniority list as suggested by Human Factors? A filter could be placed onto bids relating to satisfactory performance in the last two LPC/OPC sim sessions. If BACX does have a major incident do you really think that the crew and aircraft won't be labelled as "BA"?
Hasta la Pasta