I don't know if I have missed something in this thread but I can't get my head around the FTO selection.
If equal weight is placed on each FTO by BA that is fine, but initially it is down to the FTO to send their successful candidates to the next stage of the selection process at BA.
So, if the most popular one (and I'm assuming that is CTC) has 5000 applicants and the others have 3000 (numbers purely made up) then you will have less competition by selecting one of the other FTOs.
But that doesn't seem fair to me.
Have I got it right?