I am sitting here with the BA application form on my desk wondering whether to bother.
I am presently a Captain with a good scheduled airline with reasonable seniority, salary and pension to look forward too. Rostering could be better but it is a known quantity. I am well trained and have the privelege of flying with great colleagues.
Why should I put my family through the ordeal of BA selection and possible wait in the 'Hold' pool?
It is not for the prospect of a salary increase certainly. By all accounts the lifestyle is much of a muchness anyway. If I am selected I won't be offered a job straight off. The offer will turn up perhaps years later. I may even have a smaller pension. The working culture sounds very impersonal.
I think I'll leave it alone. Its not worth the kudos frankly.