I remember when I went throught the selection process in the late nineties (99 in fact) they were going on about the problems in the early 90's due to the gulf war and they were still recruiting then to make up for the deficit caused by the problems in the early 90's and during that time everybody else nicked their pilots and that they weren't going to make that mistake again.
Plus they did also say that around 50% of their Captains were reaching retirement age and that must still be going on, and leave a descrepancy
I'm hopeful that things will pick up by next summer, we are constantly told in the media about the doubling etc in air travel by whenever
This makes me sound like I really wanna work for BA, but in reality I wanna be a pilot full stop.