I believe that the long haul requirement is 2000 hours and full ATPL.
I wouldn't sweat it - i'm sure they will drag everyone out of the holding pool soon. BA has a reputation as a huge top heavy company with oodles of admin staff, I was surprised when I started to find out that is far from the truth. The pilot recruitment department is not big at all and they are all juggling about 20 balls at the moment, but are all genuine and very helpful people. The situation appears to be very fluid with potentailly significant expansion on the horizon and all sorts of recruitment being rumoured