Originally Posted by
Nyflier
All 121 pilots have been required to hold an ATP for several years now. If you hold a Commercial Certificate or only a single engine ATP, you have to do the CTP and take the ATP Multiengine written.
Long before PSA was offering the CTP there was at least one guy who made it all the way to the oral with a SE ATP with no written. There wasn't any malfeasance on his part, but the company gave him the option of funding his own CTP and coming back within a certain amount of time with no loss of seniority.
As it would've been several thousand dollars, and it was still a $25/hour gig back then, he went back to corporate.