With respect, I think you miss the point. We appreciate the hard work by the recruitment team and the dilemma faced by BA with regards future pilot recruitment.
A year ago the recruitment team were in regular contact despite the growing uncertainty that swallowing BMI would have on numbers. Indeed, they sent helpful, informative and friendly emails in the latter part of 2011 and early 2012, such that they lived up to the excellent reputation upon which BA retains so much goodwill from customers and staff alike.
Then all lines of communication went dead. No updates through the recruitment website. No response to perfectly polite emails seeking an update. Then on one hand we have 'news' from a variety of sources to say that all those in the hold pool and between interviews are, in effect, 'out', and on the other hand we have absolute silence from BA.
The point many are making, politely on here and rather more vigorously in private, is that the silence from BA is eating into the goodwill we all have for the company. This is very sad because all it would take is one email saying 'we appreciate your patience and have not forgotten you; your application is/is not dead. In all honestly, is that an unreasonable expectation when you consider how much contact we had with the recruitment team in the early days?