Although I'm delighted to see a scheme like this make a come-back, I must say I'm a little surprised too that Bond would need to run such a scheme in the first place. Granted, the pool of experienced guys is drying up, but if anything I thought they would have looked towards more experienced pilots and offered maybe an IR/AS332L2 TR sponsorship rather than ab-initio.
As I say, not complaining by a long shot!
Good luck to all the applicants. I hope to be joining you in a year or 2 (providing this, or schemes like it, are still running). Here's hoping....
S