ATP requirements, would have a very lasting effect on schools, airlines, and the FAA.

Universities would attract less students into flying programs, as noone would want to wait 4 years just to get a multi com, and maybe a cfi ticket, and then wait some more to build time. ATP-DCA-American Flyers, would have to close down their professional pilot programs, because there aint no way in hell you can get an ATP in 90 days.If they chose to actually incorporate the ATP flying into the program it would be way too expensive to attract students...from this country anyway-unless they guaranteed a regional job placement.Planes would be flying all the damn time, kids would be dreading the flying.

Regional management would be pulling their hair out as they would not have the liquidity of pilots that they needed,or wanted.While pay just might improve, pay was never dependant on total time in the first place, it was dependant on seniority-and seniority is luck of the draw, so dont expect anything to change on the way of how much we get paid.

The FAA would get hammered with calls and letters from FBO's, Universities, and Airlines so that they would tweak the legislation slightly, down to maybe 1000 hours, or maybe not at all. The FAA doesn't like to look bad.

Even with ATP's there are still pilots who cant really fly an airplane as well as most people with that amount of time should.At Compass we still have Captains, who can't tell the difference between lightning strikes, and static discharges, captains that flare so damn much that you cant see the runway until the tail hits the pavement, and brings the nose down, and then we have those that cant tell where they are on a moving map.We also have FO's that like to "Moon" other pilots as they taxi by each other, but little do they know that, the pax have windows too.And all of us have ATP's!