hi , I am doing an Air tansport with commercial piloy training at buckinghamshire new university... i'd definetly reccomend you a degree course, for two reasons
1 it will give you more jobs opportunities and
2 i am in my 3rd year of the course and douring the second year i had a medical problem and as a consequence i can no longer fly, but thanks to the degree i will still be able to (hopefully) get a job, without it i would have wasted all the money i spent for my training