I have to admit that I am not that surprised that BA have taken this action. We can cope with one airline or a couple that have frozen recruitment however I hope this is not a sign of the way recruitment will stand for the near future with other airlines.
Trans-atlantic markets have been hit hard across the board during recent times and BA obviously don't expect things to get any better due to the sad events on Tuesday. Since the UK-America market is the biggest for BA then any fluctuation in the performance in that area will affect the over all performance of the company.
Hopefully other airlines will not follow BA or those of us coming through the training system will be in for a difficult time.
MG