Originally Posted by
stbloc
It was always sold to me as any flight from airport to airport was a cross country for the ATP. I don't know whats right or wrong but if 50Nm is required, the airlines will be more desperate. CFI's don't fly many of their lessons over 50NM. Now what you will see is instructors taking students for 50nm joy rides at the students expense.
That's 135 XC.
ATP XC needs > 50NM, but no LDG required.
This is all crystal clear in the regs, no grey area whatsoever. It isn't spelled out in one place, so it takes some digging to find all the relevant paragraphs. But you can take my word for it on this one.