Originally Posted by
Baboon Boy
The statement about the hours was meant as an example of a potential case of discrimitation, to illustrate my point. Of course there are some flying instructors who would be less suitable with 1000hrs than a fresh 200hrs bod, but one might equally catch a whiff of discrimination and favouritism, thats all. If such a situatuionm were investigated, as proposed in article 5, then the real truth would indeed be found.
There are few places where this would be at all tolerated, let alone occur in this day and age.
It was common knowledge that kids of BA staff stood a lesser chance of getting into the airline than others. Whether this was due to the type of characters attracted to the job, who had thought little about what they were really suited for, is besides the point. BA was utterly scrupulous to the point of denying a cadetship to a son of a friend of Lord King in one famous example.