For current hold-poolers and anyone with "insider knowledge":
any word yet on new-year start dates? I notice a few people on this thread who have been in the pool since late spring / early summer 2011 are still awaiting news."
Things have gone very quiet internally and there is suddenly a lot of spare capacity in the sim, which two months ago was very rare. This indicates that training capacity is less of an issue. However, the freeze in recruitment could be for a number of reasons and you have to take into consideration a number of other factors, such as forward bookings being down (although premium loads are still good), lgw fleet replacement decision delayed until next June and then there are the numerous rumours circulating re. BMI and the possible implications of any tie up. Hopefully things will become much clearer in the next few weeks.