I watched the video from the congressional hearing, (and by the way, Sully was absolutely brilliant), and it occurred to me that NO ONE asked the most important question: "WHY?"

WHY,.......... does that RAA, (and the cowardly regional airline executives hiding behind it) want congress believe that some kind of "structured educational requirement" would serve the nation's airline passengers better than requiring all airline pilots to have Airline Transport Pilot licenses? WHY???

Would anyone care to take a guess? WHY would the RAA (doing the bidding of regional airline management) want to see the 1500 hour/A.T.P. requirement replaced with some kind of heretofore undeveloped, untested, unrecognized "structural educational requirement"?