If IAG purchase BMI, surely it will be a complete purchase, pilots plus aircraft. So one would think this would nullify the impact of BMI pilots on recruitment, or is this too simple? I hope this is the case, if they buy the aircraft the situation is neutral and we can get on with the process of recruiting new people but I feel this will likely be a hatchet job, meaning most of the BMI aircraft will be sold as it's such a loss making entity.
This then leaves the pilots, I'm sure BA see this as a great opportunity to employ lots of well trained pilots basically for free. That pretty much eats up 300+ pilots of the 800 they want, who will make up the rest I wonder?
What a horrid time to be mid way through the recruitment process, the whole situation seems to have changed overnight with the potential BMI purchase and the general economic malaise. It feels like 2008 all over again..