Hi mate,
Agreed about all the eggs in one basket, however since BA stopped their Engineering graduate scheme, the Virgin Atlantic one seems the only true UK airline engineering graduate scheme left. The majority of airlines seem to recruit qualified aircraft engineers, more often than not either with mandatory experience of certain aircraft/fleet.
I think I was miss-leading in my earlier post with regard to the pestering of airlines. In fact, that was my initial tactic. I must have sent letters to all the UK based airlines which operate an engineering division, with each airline probably getting about 5-10 letters each between July 2005 and around the middle of March this year. Everyone came back the same - thanks for the interest, check our website for latest vacancies.
Thank again,
eP.