Isos1, if you're hell bent on going integrated, your strategy must be to get onto a cadetship with an airline. These cadetships select candidates
before they start training, so would be of no benefit to you if you were a self sponsored student who happened to be at the same school as the cadets.
From what I've been told there were instances in the past where the airlines in question required more cadets at short notice, and then picked up the phone to the relevant flying schools and asked for recommendations for self sponsored students. Then the lucky few self-sponsored students, in the top % of their course finishing their training at the right time would have been put forward.
Can you really see that happening in the near future given the current economic situation?! As you say yourself, the BA FPP has not yet been rerun this year as expected, which suggests that the airlines are not suffering a pilot shortage at the moment - quite the opposite in fact. In light of the above a self-sponsored integrated course seems like a risky strategy at the moment.
Pretty much the only other game in town is Ryanair, who are just as likely to take you from a modular background. The £30k saving you make going modular will come in handy for paying for that type rating
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