I can confirm that British Midland have indeed cancelled their sponsorship scheme as of yesterday afternoon.
If you are not on a training course forget it. If you are in training then apparently there is not firm decision but training is to continue. I expect a repeat of what has gone before whereby new cadets are sent to work as Cabin Crew for a while or are sent to other operators for a spell.
Given that the centre plank of BMI's plans involved trans Atlantic services things do not look great for BMI future recruitment needs.
This wannabe recruitment crisis is developing very quickly.
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