It's as Wiggy says. I wouldn't make plans based on it either, but the suggestion was that more news will be available by the end of the year, which isn't all that far away now. It will be interesting to see what any new scheme comes along, if indeed any new scheme does come along. I am quietly confident that this is being seriously looked at though. The right people are saying the right things.
Financially it doesn't make a lot of difference to BA as far as I can see. Don't offer a sponsorship and pay a higher joining salary, or offer a sponsorship and pay a lower joining salary. It more or less balances out.