Originally Posted by Mason32

Sorry, but the bill as written does NOT include any waiver or grandfathering of existing pilots, so the requirement applies to everybody... why would you need to include another section in the bill to repeat that it already applies to everybody? It just gives people already there three years to get their ATP.

As for forcing the companies to provide the ATP... I think that is yet another example of the younger type of pilots that have been getting hired the last few years that come in with an attitude of entitlement.
It wasn't good enough that they got hired at a part 121 airline with only 250 hours, now they want the airline to pay for their ATP too....
Does this mean that ALL of the pilots who were hired WITH their ATP's can get a stipend check since they won't cost all this extra money?

WOW, this gets better everyday....

I guess the vast majority of us who worked as CFI's, flew boxes all night for a living, worked our way up, and had thousands of hours on the ATP ticket we already had BEFORE even getting a 121 interview shouldn't be surprised by this latest cry from the "me" generation.

So, since your objective of this thread is to keep this focused on the including a "retroactive" part of the legislation, I would suggest you back and read it again... since it already is.