Hi Piers,
I understand that BA offers a £20.000 sponsorship to those who want to take the MSc program at City University in London. The MSc program was designed with that in mind... it's very flexible schedule-wise.
BA doesn't press it at all however. I'm in contact with the City U. people and they report having only 10 BA pilots/year. BA's chief pilot was cited in Flight International as saying the MSc sponsorship program was rather directed toward future management pilot positions.
The only airline I could fine that make a BSc an entry requirement is Air France. They require pilots to be certificated engineers before joining the company (they also consider other diplomas on a case by case basis). Is there anyone in this forum that can confirm this?
Thankx
Jean LaRoche
Aero Innovation
Montreal