I'd rather have a sensible, wise pilot with decent personality with good connection between their hands and their brain with barely any educational qualifications than someone with a MSc/MEng in aeronautical engineering but without common sense or sensibleness or with poor personality, any time!
In reality you wouldn't get through the ATPL written exams if you are not academically "OK" anyway (even the much dumbed-down EASA version compared to the good old UK CAA ones...), but the actual academic qualifications shouldn't matter beyond the very basics to make sure you can do the arithmetic and write English in a somewhat comprehensible manner (which is pretty much what BA is doing).
I know certain airlines (they shall remain nameless to protect the 'guilty') with pretty poor safety records that normally require pilots to have a degree...
Originally Posted by
snaxmuppet
Is Perf A still a requirement?
I think that went with JAR-isation followed by EASA. No more VC10 hell (was that VC10 or something else?)