Originally Posted by
kaputt
Wasn’t the era of regionals hiring at 250-500 hours pretty short lived and also not every regional was doing that?
Prior to about the turn of the century competitive mins were always around 1000-2500TT / 300-500 ME. Than came the RJ boom, and even then some regionals stuck to 1000 minimum.
Originally Posted by
kaputt
Regardless, the 1500 hour rule has seemed to provide a weird mix of positives and negatives. Pay improved drastically but the crunch on labor availability it caused has also meant that quality of applicants has not necessarily gone up.
Well it fixed one problem but didn't fix other problems... the regionals would still be hiring low quality applicants without the ATP rule, they'd just have fewer hours. All applicants improve at least a little between 200 and 1500 hours, and most gain significant improvement, in judgement if nothing else.