All this talk about 5-10 years on the ATR is nonsense in my opinion.
There is currently some sort of cap on people moving from the ATR and while I can sort of understand it from a business perspective - though I think it is misguided and not real smart, but I can sort of understand it (note I didn't say I agree with it!)
The ATR EBA is currently being negotiated so it seems to me that it is an area ripe for negotiation.
The organisation does not benefit from having a heap of pissed off ATR pilots who bail out and go to QF or elsewhere, (despite what some of our betters might think) so it makes perfect business sense to me to work out a mutually satisfactory arrangement. Which is probably why it won't happen