please. The historical entry requirement was an ATP and several thousand hours, like around 4500 to get an RJ jet job. As management kept taking concessions from pilots over the decades, they had to hire less and less qualified applicants. By late 2006 they were hiring ink wet 250 hour commercials. That ended around mid 2012. After the 2008 recession there was little hiring for over two years. So, a small window of 2-4 years where minimums dipped to the lowest legal applicant coincidentally when pay and work rules dipped to their lowest too.
no, the ATP rule only restores a portion of the experience it used to take.