So the recruitment staff have been hired for 18 months. Wow!!!!
Anyone who has worked in recruitment recently will be able to tell you that BA have been using outside recruitment companies for years. When I worked in recruitment they used a company called Hudsons. When interviewing sometimes only one in ten are successful.
If BA trained up 30 New entrants each week (and that would be eight courses running at one time, 15 per course and each course running for 4 weeks min) in one year they would only have been able to have trained up 1560 crew.
Having said that it is highly unlightly that they would have that many courses going at one time for a whole year. So how can this new fleet possibly expand as fast as BASSA are making out. Especially as it would make no sense to leave all of us sitting at home with our garanteed monthy allowance and basic pay!!!!!
BASSA are scaremongering and have been, throughout this dispute and it is a really cruel thing to be doing to their own members. I just wish more of them would look at this thread and see the light!