It would be up to the airline. As I read flyingturco's post he was asking about getting hired straight into a main line airline with a foreign license. The regionals are so desperate for pilots they are paying for the CTP for non-ATPs. The mainline airlines haven't gotten to that point yet. While Delta says you only need a FAA commercial I'm willing to bet their resume scoring system would put a commercial certificate pilot so far down the list they'd never get called for the interview. With the green card ft should be treated the same as a native born pilot. And that would require showing up with a FAA ATP. The regionals would suck him up in a heartbeat.'