BA wont be recruiting any pilots soon, no matter how short we are, unless the company wide recruitment ban is lifted. The reasons for this are:
1) BA pilots are disliked throughout the company (thanks to management propaganda) and any attempt to recruit flight crew to an efficient but understaffed department will be met with howls of protest.
2) If flight crew are hired then all the other overstaffed but inefficient departments will demand more staff to make up for their inefficiencies.
3) If flight crew are hired Waterside will go on a massive recruitment spree as individual managers try to protect their positions by hiring more 'executives' and 'analysts' to work beneath them.
To correct the previous poster who said that we are losing many flight crew, we are only losing 400 over two years. That target will be more than met by natural wastage, yet less than a year after 911 we are critically short of Airbus Captains and 744 crew. We have now reached the stage on the Airbus where flights are being cancelled due to shortages of flight crew, but we can't hire until the Waterside beast is slain.
