Jet II - there was no shortage of applicants prior to September 11th, but there was a serious shortage of good applicants. In the past BA had a flood of applications from experienced jet pilots with many hours, all keen to move on to better things. That flood had become a trickle and the vast majority of applications were from low hours pilots with little if any jet time. Things might pick up a bit with redundancies post-Sept 11th, but as people have already said, why would you join BA why you can earn better money elsewhere, live where you want and be part of a rapidly growing company with all the opportunites that presents?