Hi,
Spoke to BA last week and they confirmed that all courses in 2011 are full and expect a lot of courses for those in the holdpool from January. At the moment there is about 65 swimmers.
All fleets are available but short course are preferred so if you have a type rating for what they are looking for at the time you may jump ahead of those waiting however all those in the pool should be on courses by March 2012.
The latest round of recruitment shouldn't affect the 65 in the pool at the moment unless any widebody guys make it through.
Gonna be a long swim, better top up the water wings!!
oh and for those waiting to hear back about applications, I waited 7 weeks for a reply on my application, 7 months for an interview slot with 1 week wait for the outcome, 2 months for a sim slot and then 4 weeks for an outcome from from that. I think I'm pretty much at the bottom of the list so looking at a March start date so from application to course it will be 18 months.