Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
...a 21 y/o I am mentoring that cannot get hired by AMR eagle because he will not meet ATP minima in Aug 2013. From what the Eagle VP stated there are no waivers and he is on the ARC so he should know. All of their applicants must be legal and have the ATP by Aug 2013 or they will not even put them in class. I would attribute to ALPA, which is what their VP said.
I thought it was a given that the new 121 FO mins would be considerably below a full 1500 hour ATP. So if what you say comes true, either the ATP mins themselves will be lowered or Eagle is simply chosing to enforce the 1500 hours and actual ATP as "company mins."
However at this point we may never know (via that pathway) as Eagle likely won't hire a whole lot if a lot of 37 and 50 seaters are parked and they don't get massive "scope relief" from the APA.