It is pointless trying to second guess when/how/why/what the recruitment process will be doing next year! The training department and the finance department are still trying to figure it all out! With the return of the 744's from the desert, the merger completion and new routes (Heathrow-Orly etc..) coming then what goes today might not be extant for tomorrow.
Suffice to say that friends I have spoken to are VERY upbeat about the requirements for the next year or so. Whilst internal movement is still slow everybody expects that to change with SH movement to LH thus freeing up the bottom of the SH fleets.
Keep watching the site, when the 'suitable' type rated applicants have been used up then the goal posts will be widened. Those looking at the FTO's there have been rumours of contact between the training department and the usual schools either taking place or being planned.
Good luck.