Whats to say they ever come back to low hour recruitment. Virgin Atlantic sponsored about 6 cadets 10 years ago, then never touched any low hour grads. Why? Because its cheaper to take DEPs from feeder airlines. Guessing theres gona be ample number of flybe, easyjet & ryanair cadets happy to hop over to BA over the coming years... They'll just become feeder airlines to BA. With the ever increasing eroding of T&Cs in this line of work we'll soon have the way its done in the USA. FTO > Instruct > Regional > Airline Pilot.