U.S Congress about to mandate that both pilots must hold an ATP for all airline operations. This will hopefully sow the seeds of a shortage when hiring starts again and also kill off some of the pilot-puppy mills over here.. In addition, rest requirements about to change dramatically in the U.S. which might necessitate more pilots to cover the same amount of flying...
So they are basically forcing the airlines to expand their pilotbase, I wonder how that will work , a lot of them are hemorraging money , a big extra cost like that could very well push some of the ones that are already struggeling finally over the cliff.
Also it won't sit well with a lot of (potential) investors .
Not that I'm against more jobs for pilots but in the end it is a business and it is there to make money and we all know how hard that is in todays aviation world.
The ATP thing might be a good idea.