Affirm towser. One more senior than me has flown the RJ before. The other who is junior to me on seniority hasn't. I don't begrudge either of them their positions as I'm leaving. If a command had been offered, I would have stayed. The point I'm trying to make is that the selection process (if there ever was one) is a complete farce. Despite being type rated and having a good training record I was never asked to attend a selection interview. A number of the companies' senior captains (including type rated sim trainers) were also rejected.
Furthermore, I believe that members of the BALPA CC were complicit in this process, having been bought off with a command. Why else would the relevant thread on the BALPA forum disappear?