G,
I think we're at cross purposes a bit. I COMPLETELY agree with everything you say, don't get me wrong. Redundant was the wrong word to use, which is why I clarified with further posts. Perhaps 'not a guarantee' would have been a better term to use.
I guess I just felt it was a bit unfair that a poster was jumped on because they spent 2 hours on an application and another poster was presuming this is the reason they hadn't heard anything, which in reality no one could know.
Good Luck to you too and hopefully we may meet on the flight deck one day