Lots of very (sadly) valid comment above,
bex, I may be missing the context for this comment, if so apologies, but can you clarify what you meant by:
It would surly take a large policy change and BALPA's agreement to recruit cadets from flight school directly ahead of those in the pool.
(my emphasis)
I may be misinformed from time to time but
AFAIK BALPA has no input into BA's recruiting mechanism and I suspect BALPA would have had no say at all at in this decision
Sorry if I'm sounding picky but I'm just trying to stop stories along the lines of "being stitched up by BALPA/senior pilots" starting to circulate - we've had enough of those already
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