Of the majority of that small population, only a handful made use of BBVA. When there are 10-16 Whitetail cadets per group (as ground school classes tend to be larger due to modular and other MPLs etc), the vast majority of them were funded with parent support via other means.
Sounds like there are more people who have 100,000+ lying around than I thought. In which case BBVA pulling out would probably make little difference, the majority of airlines and schools seemingly care little about social mobility anyway....
Thanks for the info and I hope everything works out ok for you. Your blog is excellent btw, one of the more informative I have seen (a lot of them are great as a "living the dream" diary but give very little information).