115 applied to an OAA selection panel, 30 short listed, 24 of those will go to interview, 20 places available. So i guess that makes 95 who will ultimately be spared another huge mountain of debt.
With numbers like this it's no wonder airlines offer "opportunities" of this nature.
Oh and the type rating will be done in OAA sims and the FOs will be on a Parc contract, so most of the £34K goes into the pot of companies that have become OAA branded in one form or another over recent years.