Indeed those with poor academic result would waste their time trying into this kind of selection process.
They normally select just people with a graduation and mainly from engineering
Rather than worry about whether BA prefer people of an engineering based degree or not, young or old etc. etc., I strongly suggest that if you meet the minimum standards and really want to do this, you apply and let the recruitment team worry about their minimum standards.
I thought the FPP thing got canned in the wake of the BMI takeover ?
It is now officially known that the FPP scheme will open up. Again, let BA worry about their recruitment needs post BMI. TUPE is not applicable to removing people for underperformance, if that is what you are getting at.
Be yourself, invest a 100% into the process but unfortunately accept that many capable candidates will not get through due to the numbers.