Hi!

ATP mins is a big unknown...it will affect things A LOT, and no one knows how it will go down. I would not be surprised if it passed now, but in two years, as airlines get desperate, if it was rescinded.

Ab Initio could work very well here. I guarantee the foreign airlines that have done it for years, are trying their best, just like the US airlines, to make a profit. Airlines will proabably be forced to go to an Ab-Initio program, at some point.

cliff
NBO
PS-If you want to teach, and you go through the standard university program, you are REQUIRED to PFT! You can get around this by finding a district that is desperate, but we saw how that turned out in the airline industry....which regionals were desparate, and what were those jobs like?

Starting pay in 2000, at the 2nd highest paying district in WI was 24,000/year. Normally, you can not get this much pay after graduation. You have to substitute teach for a year or more, and/or take a job at with very low pay: way out in the boonies, inner city, or at a private school.