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Wheels up
Babbitt ain't gonna require an ATP. The airline execs will fire him if he tried to do something like that. It's going to be business as usual with a few cosmetic and inconsequential changes enough to give the appearance of doing something. And Mr. Babbitt will leave the FAA in a few years for a very lucrative lobbist job for the ATA.
Babbitt will do whatever the Legislative and Executive Branch tell him to do through legislation...
I agree about the cross pollination of the FAA and ATA.