Whilst ageeing with your sentiments, tiredandfedup, the plain fact is that an awful lot of children still want to be pilots, and telling them that the career is rapidly following the Merchant Navy down the plughole is no deterrent. They don't want to listen [I have sad personal experience of this.] They will take any job anywhere if it gets them airborne, and the bigger machine the better. So, for those too idle/incompetent to find out for themselves, here is a list of the current joining requirements for RBA. 1) A U.K. or N.Z licence with 767 rating. 2) No spark of initiative whatsoever coupled with an affinity for grovelling. 3) A pulse. [For those with jet time that can be measured in double figures requirement 3 will be waived].