Originally Posted by
Easy Ryder
They've stopped recruiting due to the delays of the A380.
Recruiting has stopped for the moment because we have enough pilots for now. The A380 wasn't due till Q1 2009; we were hardly recruiting that far ahead! You may not have noticed, but we're in the middle of a delivery programme of 25 A340-600s. As I understand it, the manning level has got a bit ahead of the requirement and so the taps have been turned off. However, 4 more A346s are due next year with no aircraft retirements, so there is likely to be some recruiting next year. I would imagine that it won't be on the scale of the past 2 years though.