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FlyASA
Isn't it 500 hours airport to airport, not 500 hours cross country?
§ 61.159 Aeronautical experience: Airplane category rating.
Link to an amendment published at 74 FR 42561, Aug. 21, 2009.
(a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section, a person who is applying for an airline transport pilot certificate with an airplane category and class rating must have at least 1,500 hours of total time as a pilot that includes at least:
(1) 500 hours of cross-country flight time.
(2) 100 hours of night flight time.
(3) 75 hours of instrument flight time, in actual or simulated instrument conditions, subject to the following: