Can't find anything that says they do.

Thanks in advance.

For initial no, for recurrent yes.

Why is this the case?

...because the FAA actually has to trust them to allow them to do initial AQP rides...

So the FAA trusts them to do recurrent, but not initial?

Initial can end up with a new ATP certificate, recurrent is just recurrent.

What about if you already have an ATP?

Speaking of ATP, I got my ATP in 1995, but my credit card style pilot license issued years ago has the date as 2013. What's up with that?

Cost of program development and FAA approval.

Reissue when they removed SSN from the certs.

Ahhh. Well they removed 8 years off of my ATP.