Originally Posted by planediveguy

Republic and Shuttle will not merge. Just did my PC with an ATP checkride and type on the ERJ 170 and ERJ 190... one of the managers was there and he told me the reason this "merger" might not happen is because of no competing clauses... and the reason why Shuttle did not get the flying...

And yes you get an ATP with no restrictions other than circling approaches in VMC only... apparently there is no time on the SIM to perform such maneuver...lol