I can’t imagine any applicant would have heard anything at all before applications close on May 5th.
The program for a July 2nd kickoff will be tight, given that it will take a couple of weeks to do all the interviews and advise the successful applicants, then give notice to former employer, presumably 4 weeks, ground school with a 20.11 wet drill two weeks, type rating endorsement, two weeks, ASIC Card application if it’s a company sponsored one before any non type rated new hire is ready to step foot in the aircraft.
It would need to be an F50 from day one and it is ideally suited to this route, particularly if Olympic Dam is still only 1600M in length If so, this would exclude the F100 going in there I would have thought.