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To make myself clear, as you appear not to understand "a gentlemanly pace"; if you are to work part/full time and learn to fly part-time, you do not and cannot accumulate sufficient flying knowledge in sufficiently short a time to be able to cope with the rigours of line training - that was BA's experience, be it right or wrong, and that is why they prefer people whom have not taken their time to train up.
Why don't you go out and speak with BA line trainers who have trained such people in the past - they had immense trouble coping with the syllabus, which is why BA does not look at people who have built up hours to achieve fATPL at a gentlemanly pace, and ony those who have done it in a short space of time from established schools, be they integrated, structured modular, or doing it fulltime yourself at somewhere such as Bristol.
Yes, you point below plays a part a well, but BA has experimented in times of lack of suitable trainees in the mid-90s.
Last edited by Re-Heat; 31st Mar 2006 at 19:10.