While I too agree everyone once online at any airline should have the ATP with PIC type, I must wonder about his comment of everyone at USair having one.... Isn't almost everyone at USair (at least the "easties" where these guys flew) either a current or former USair captain thanks to the way that company has gone in the past 10 years or so? I mean if he's been there for 20+ years and is still a A320 FO then why hasn't he upgraded to captain? This assuming he wasn't at one point and is a downgrade there.

Next point, isn't about 99.5% of all major airline pilots ATP's? And the few that aren't came from the military where they have to perform a paperwork exercise to actually get their earned type ratings and ATP in the civilian world?