I think BA will continue sourcing most of their cadets from their own funded scheme in the future for several reasons. Firstly, it doesn't really cost them that much because they recover most of the costs from cadets salaries anyway. Secondly, it allows them to choose the kind of people they want to employ and then train them as pilots, rather than trying to find the type of people they want from the relatively small pool of qualified pilots. Thirdly, by sponsoring cadets they can monitor them at every stage of the training and boot people early if they're not showing promise. With the self sponsored guys its not really possible to hire on the basis of a check flight in the sim, which was the basic ability test for DEPS. If occasionally somebody slips through the net it can get very expensive if they have to be booted after getting a type rating and going to base training three times.