having recently spoke to simon talling smith head on IFS, he confirmed that ba would be recruiting temps this year. But numbers have not been decided. he stated that it would be nowhere near 700. which has been mentioned on galley fm.
they are going to recruit for temps to start at the end of the summer, this coincides with needing more main crew when the purser comes off the 747 in september. the number of maincrew will then decrease, as they have offered crew at lhr ww temp part time for 1 year starting this month. and they will need to go back to full time. this helps them reduce their 900 hours.
he also stated that there will be xfers from eurofleet from the xfer list.
hopefuly they will xfer people from sfg to euro lhr to allow for these xfers.
but remember that the xfer list to lhr ww is done in seniority and all crew at lhr euro are more senior in the nsp that sfg crew. but purser xfer 50% has to come of xfer list by seniority and 50% by internal promotion.
with the open skies coming in ( march i believe ) ba have already stated on the intranet that dfw will be going to lhr, i expect they will swap it with lhr eurofleet routes, to free up slots at lhr. so they will still need the same amount of crew at lgw.