Danny Boy,
I went for the Cabair/Flybe in 2007 in order to start in Jan 2008. Fell at the final hurdle
The offer at the time was £60K paid for by yours truly, £18K paid for by Flybe - bonded for 3 years.
So yeah, you still need a lot of money.
In all honestly, unless 50'000 pilots suddenly got the plague (WWW could present us with a graph that it is actually possible
), no airline will, especially in the UK, offer the full package like BA used to do.