ATP Practical Requirement
 

I know Delta recently removed their ATP practical requirement for applying. I heard a few rumors about United following suit in the near future but haven’t seen anything official. I was just wondering if anyone had any insight into whether there might be any truth to the rumor.

If true, that scraping noise you'll hear is the bottom of the barrel.

It might have changed with the new ATP requirements but Delta never required the practical prior to that. Written was all you needed complete.

UA has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for a while now.....

The airline industry has been scrapping the bottom of the barrel for some time. And they 1000% did it to themselves.

Maybe for civilian applicants, but as a military guy all the ATP practical proved was that I had 4K in my bank account. I was flying a multi engine cargo plane in and out of combat zones around the world for years, but I had to prove to the FAA I could fly a little 2 engine piper, and those 4.5 hours was the difference between being a qualified applicant or not?

Delta doesn’t have that requirement, are they scraping the bottom of the barrel?

Combat zone just meant you had to turn your lights off 😜

Like driving down a country road with your headlights off, at high speed.

100%. Everybody is.

I thought that sound was the tail of an Airbus?