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I have heard talks about what they are going to replace the 1500 hour rule with. One of the things that was mentioned was having new hires FO's fly a minimum of 250 hours on the jump seat and observing. It won't be loggable time, but will be a requirement if they are hired at 500 hours. The time on the jump seat will be considered "real world experience observations".
Hopefully ALPA can take care of that. That would be a real burden for commuters which I'm guessing make up a majority of us.