Guys,
It probably won't help your anticipation but just to throw some light onto the process and alleviate the conceived pressure on the recruitment team!
BA still has, at it's core, the mentality and structure of a nationalised industry. There are some progressive departments, primarily being those directly facing the customer, but many operate in their own 'bubble' and communicate completed tasks only to those department dependent upon them.
A classic example is that of 'commercial' deciding what aircraft, routes, loads etc. hence the required flying programme with it's associated hull numbers and thus crewing numbers and then dropping it onto the laps of Flight Ops and Training.
Once that has been done budgets and targets are set and the whole training programme grinds into action and recruitment levels and aircraft courses are decided. Unfortunately, constantly, the requirements generated by commercial are affected by various 'external and internal' influences which have a trickle down affect on training and recruitment leading to a change in annual targets and the ability to adequately crew specific hull types.
So, whilst I am sure you are all waiting with baited breath for your answers the simple fact is that recruiting may well be adjusting their position based on a new edict from above and having to rework their plans to take differently qualified pilots (ZFT to LH?) instead of their initial remit of crewing to SH. I'm sure that doesn't help those who might otherwise have got a place on SH when the push to DEP LH came in but just take it as not being a reflection of your ability 'per se' but more a reflection of the fluid, ever changing requirements of the company.
Hope that helps.