Three Thirty has a fair point - It's nothing to do with professionalism etc. BA have an HR based selection procedure with a target skill set which the feel they want their pilots to demonstrate. Some 'less-able' people pass and some 'good' people unfortunately fail. It's a fair system that negates nepotism etc.
A fair few current BMI pilots have been through the system and failed yet will now by-pass the selection procedure due to business / TUPE circumstances. I'm sure the HR department would like to put all new BMI guys through the same selection procedure retaining those who pass and discarding those that fail BUT they can't because it's illegal ..... but it's also unfair to all the other applicants who have to apply from scratch.
It's happened before with British Caledonian, Dan Air, City Flyer etc
Last edited by Jockster; 26th May 2012 at 11:43.