PD
at Cathay they offer a few places a month/year to people, under 31 I think it is, and take them from no PPL right through to commercial and on into the Cathay ranks. We had a guy who was a line-engineer and he swapped sides to the flying community.
I would suggest if you want to end up as a commercial pilot then put all of your efforts into this, getting on an airline scheme like Cathay's. Take the opportunity that a redundancy package gives you and go for the flying....
Good Luck,
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