So if what I'm hearing is that hours do not matter, then why don't we just abandon all of the ATP hour requirements for the PIC as well?

And we wonder why, as a collective group, we cannot seem to find equal footing with other professions that we often try to equate to (doctors for example). Instead we just keep lowering (or in this case refusing to raise) our professional standards.

Maybe the public is right, anybody can fly an airliner, it flies itself and we are just a bunch of (still) overpaid pre-madanas with egos to boot.

You can't ask for a raise and lower your job requirements!

KC