Well there are hundreds of us out there flying big jets with 1000s of hours accident free who would love your job.......But we are out there flying for EK, CX etc and prepared to come back to blighty for the going rate
You think theres a 1000 744 rated people out there willing to work for BA? Then how come barely 20 744 rated pilots have applied? As has been previously mentioned several times, if BA starts sacking people they'll have no TRI/TREs left, which could make for an interesting training program as they try to rebuild the operation.
I would guess that 3000 pilots aren't required either as short haul would be scrapped
You guess wrong. CEO after CEO have said they can't scrap short haul, it's essential for the feeder traffic. Unless you know better than Bob Ayling, rod Eddingtion and Willie Walsh put together.