Although the airlines will eventually change their requirements, applicants with 4-5 years experience should already have an ATPL... Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe leaving that requirement in there is their way of filtering the super green guys from the system. Kind of along the lines of "If you have to complain that our recruitment doesn't accommodate CPL's with subjects, then maybe your just a little too green (or too much of a sense of self entitlement) for us at the moment...