GeorgEGNT - only you can make the decisions, and only by what you think is right. Have a serious sit down with yourself, get a pen and paper out, look at ALL costs involved, and make some kind of gantt chart - but be true to yourself - give realistic time & budgets then add some. It hurts to be realistic - I know the feeling...you want it all now - but unless you have £70k+ for integrated you won't have it all for years (of hard work) to come.
I'm in a similar situation to you although just finished Uni - all today I’ve been helping my uni friends of 4 years move to a new flat in the city centre - tomorrow I’m heading home (different city) to start my modular dream - In the taxi home tonight was like going down memory lane - 4 years of memories - Uni has been the best time of my life and i wouldn't swap it for anything - its quite sad to leave it all behind....but I do so with an excellent classification, 1 years solid professional work experience (sandwich year), a graduate job sorted and loads of great friends...one might say the foundations of a nice backup plan.
I've been planning my strategy to fATPL for months and months (probably spent just as much time on here reading then doing my dissertation ) and know the feeling...you want it all now now now. Hell, it still pisses me off knowing that its gonna take me years - even on a graduate wage - but I couldn’t imagine doing it on anything less than that (BTW – your looking at more around the £16k-20k mark for a grad wage…just been realistic again). Ultimately you need a good balance between your salary to fund training and work experience/back up plan - whether you achieve this via uni or not that’s totally up to you – this site proves it can and has been done either way.
Good luck – if you want it enough you’ll get there. Just be patient. I'm just grateful i never decided to really 'go for it' before uni (the want it now feeling hurts).
P.s. Manchester airport is v. easily accessible from Salford - I should know 
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