Hello everyone, I've been lurking around the site for the past few months and finally came up with what I thought was a decent question. I am going to start my freshman year of college in the fall and I have my private pilots license. Anyway my question pertains to the recent state of hiring in the regionals. It seems many companies are hiring people w/ only a comm/multi/inst license and I wanted to know if say for example Piedmont Airlines hires you with that license and then when you are ready to upgrade to captain, pays for your ATP license training. (You don't need to use Piedmont for an example, I just used it to phrase the question better)

I know many people here are annoyed (at least it seems that way) with those jumping off into the regionals with such low time. I do plan on getting my instructor rating and building some decent time before applying to any airline. I just thought I would add that so I don't get a lecture about it. Thanks everyone!! This site has been most helpful, so helpful that most of my questions are asked and anwered by others.

Kevin K