Yes, it's always tickled me that in BA-speak "Do you commute?" means "Do you travel to work using public air transport?"
I wonder what all those other poor souls on the motorway as I drive to work are doing?
In other news, there is about to be some internal movement generated by the releasing of some part-time positions which had been denied. This will create about 35 MPE places, not enough to translate into external recruitment. Next year and the year after, things will ramp up again.
The current market has made thing very difficult for the postings & promotions team, variable part time, unknown retirement levels, network changing their minds on routes. The only sure way you know you are on a new fleet, or have joined, is when you put the gear lever to 'up' for the first time on the aircraft....