Airline Pilot Jobs: Who’s Hiring Worldwide, by Region and Role

Read directly on 18 October 2026 on Aegean’s careers portal (jobs.aegeanair.com), through the GitHub-runner fetch: its list of available pilot positions showed two calls, “Non Type Rated First Officers A320 & ATR 42/72” and “Type Rated Captains for A320”. The type-rated Captain posting (Flight Operations, Captains Airbus; Athens International Airport, Building 57, Spata; full time; deadline 31/12/2026) asks for an EASA ATPL(A) with a valid A320 type rating, 5,000 h total time in commercial air transport on aircraft above 40 t MTOW, 1,000 h as PIC on the A320 family, ICAO English Level 4 at least, a valid Class 1 and the unrestricted right to live and work in the EU, with a CV in English. The postings “Type Rated First Officers for A320” and “Non-Type Rated Captains for A320” were “no longer available”. The portal’s front page says Aegean and Olympic Air look for type-rated Captains and First Officers on the A320 and ATR 42/72 and train non-type-rated ones through the type rating program of Aegean’s approved training organization. The non-type-rated First Officer call’s own page was not opened: its terms come from job boards’ copies (Avianation and others, in search results): an EASA CPL(A) with ATPL(A) theory or an EASA ATPL(A), a valid ME IR(A), 70 h PIC on airplanes, MCC and Advanced UPRT (FCL.745.A) certificates, ICAO English Level 4, Class 1 and the unrestricted right to live and work in the EU, with a deadline of 31 December 2026 (older copies of the same call: 30 June and 30 September 2026). From search results and job boards’ copies, the terms of the two calls that closed on 30 September 2026: type-rated First Officer, an EASA ATPL(A) with a valid A320 rating and 500 h on the A320 family (also in a PilotsGlobal copy archived in 2026); non-type-rated Captain, an EASA ATPL(A) with a valid type rating on aircraft above 40 t MTOW, 5,000 h of commercial air transport time on such aircraft, and 2,000 h PIC or 1,000 h PIC on Airbus fly-by-wire types. The page of Aegean’s approved training organization (search results; the page is about four years old) gives Hellenic CAA approval, A320, ATR 42/72 and DHC8 type rating courses, instructors from Aegean and Olympic Air, and the course prerequisites: 70 h PIC, a valid ME IR(A), a CPL(A) with ATPL(A) theory or an ATPL(A), and MCC. Earlier checks: 21 September and 12 October 2026 (an aggregator’s summary of the non-rated call, deadline 30 September 2026).

• Read directly on 18 October 2026, through the GitHub-runner fetch: Aegean’s list of pilot vacancies, its type-rated A320 Captain posting and the front page of its careers portal. Researched on 21 September, 12 October and 18 October 2026 from search-engine results and job boards’ copies: the terms and deadline of the non-type-rated First Officer call, whose own page we could not open, and the terms of the calls that closed on 30 September 2026. Check jobs.aegeanair.com for the current call before you apply.
• The deadline of the non-type-rated First Officer call: Aegean’s list shows the call without a date, and job boards’ copies give 31 December 2026
• Bond or type-rating cost terms
• Whether Greek is an asset or a condition: the type-rated Captain call on Aegean’s portal names only ICAO English Level 4, and a September 2026 summary of the non-type-rated call made Greek an asset, but an older, closed job-board copy of an Aegean First Officer call asked for fluent spoken and written Greek, a Greek tax number and a Greek social security number
• Which base a new First Officer is posted to, and how Aegean assigns non-rated First Officers to the A320 or the ATR

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

The direct-entry stream is open. A vacancy 'Pilote de ligne F/H' (reference 2026-23622, CDI, desired start date 01/01/2027, Roissy CDG) was loaded on Air France's own recruitment portal on 25 August 2026 with a working 'Je postule a cette offre' submit button. The portal shows no publication or closing date for this vacancy, so the evidence for 'hiring' is that the offer was live and applyable on the date checked, not a dated announcement. The cadet (ab-initio) stream is closed: Air France's own press release of 15 June 2026 states applications ran 'from June 15 to July 31, 2026', that window has passed, the cadet vacancy URL now returns 'L'offre que vous essayez d'afficher n'existe pas ou plus sur ce site', and Air France's pilot page tells cadet candidates to create a job alert to be told when the next selection opens. The 2026 cadet campaign is now in its selection phase: Air France's pilot page gives PSY0 on the first weekend of September, PSY1 during the Toussaint school break (17 October - 2 November 2026) and PSY2 'at the beginning of next year' (i.e. early 2027).

• Whether the direct-entry vacancy 2026-23622 has a closing date. The portal displays a reference number and a desired start date (01/01/2027) but no publication or closing date. It was confirmed live and applyable on 25 August 2026, and the portal still listed "Pilote de ligne F/H" on 21 October 2026; candidates should re-check the portal before relying on it.
• Who bears the cost if a cadet fails during training. Air France's FAQ says the contract ends 'without penalty' and 'the training completed is reimbursed' (French: 'la formation realisee est remboursee'), without stating the direction of the reimbursement. This is a material financial question and is not unambiguously published.
• Whether Paris-Orly is a base for pilots on the Air France mainline seniority list. Only Roissy Charles de Gaulle is confirmed, as the vacancy location and the PSY2 venue. Transavia France (to which some pilots are seconded) is Orly-based, but this was not confirmed from an Air France recruitment source.
• The number of pilots Air France intends to recruit in 2026 - not published on any Air France page found.
• Salary, roster and contract terms for direct-entry pilots - not published on the recruitment pages reviewed. Only cadet in-training pay (65/80/100% of SMIC by age band) is published.
• Whether any separate type-rated First Officer stream exists. None is published - there is a single 'Pilote professionnel' selection, and the type rating is provided by Air France after joining.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether each listing is still open — no closing dates surfaced
• Right-to-work wording
• Bond or type-rating cost terms for the E-2 route

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on careers.ba.com/pilots on 24 October 2026 (fetched from GitHub’s servers): the “Latest jobs” list showed Direct Entry Pilot, Long-haul, UK CAA license holder (Heathrow); Military Pilot Pathway (Heathrow); BA Cityflyer, Aspiration to Command (London); BA Cityflyer, Direct Entry Captain, London City base. The page describes Direct Entry Captain at BA Cityflyer or BA Euroflyer for captains with 3,000+ hours, and Aspiration for Command for pilots with 2,500+ hours. Earlier note: Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: every BA pilot vacancy found carries a closing date that has passed. BA Euroflyer’s Direct Entry First Officer campaign at Gatwick, for rated and non-type-rated pilots, ran in 2026 (reference 11668 closed in May 2026, another reference on 30 June 2026), and BA Euroflyer also advertised Direct Entry Captain vacancies, rated and non-rated (reference 7861 closed on 2 March 2026, reference 11519 on 31 July 2026). An undated mainline A320 First Officer advert for Heathrow is still indexed on BA’s older jobs portal, and a separate long-haul listing exists whose closing date could not be confirmed. BA recruits in campaigns, so the status is unconfirmed until the next one opens; check careers.ba.com/pilots. Not read directly on the portal.

• Figures here come from BA adverts — some undated, some reproduced by job aggregators — from candidate reports, and from search results of BA’s careers pages on 21 September and 12 October 2026. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether any direct-entry listing (Heathrow short haul, long haul, Euroflyer First Officer or Captain) is open in autumn 2026, and the long-haul listing’s dates. In search results on 21 September 2026 it asked for a UK CAA ATPL, frozen ATPL or MPL and 1,500 h total with a rating on a CS-25 multi-pilot jet or a 10 t+ multi-pilot turboprop; not confirmed on the portal.
• A Gatwick “Premium Short-Haul” First Officer listing seen on job aggregators in 2026 — not confirmed as a BA stream
• Whether the Euroflyer non-rated type rating is unbonded, and the online test provider (SHL, PILAPT and Aon cut-e are all named by preparation sites)
• Speedbird Pilot Academy 2026 application dates and places (search results on 21 September 2026 cited up to 160 funded places)

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 17 October 2026 through the GitHub-runner fetch, on Condor’s application portal (career.aero/condor): the job list (First Officer A32X, A320-type-rated; First Officer A32X without an A320 type rating; First Officer A330, non-type-rated; First Officer A330, Airbus wide-body experience); job 4229, the A32X posting without a rating (EASA ATPL, CPL(IR) with ATPL theory and MCC, or MPL; a CS-25 type rating preferred; Advanced UPRT training; fluent German and English at Language Proficiency Level 4; a Fachhochschulreife or Hochschulreife; no hours minimum; applicants with a valid A320 type rating prioritized in selection; IP BQ certificates recognized); job 4228, the type-rated A32X posting (a valid A320 type rating; 150 h after LIFUS desirable; bases Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Munich and Hamburg by availability); job 4280, the Condor Ab Initio Program (MPL(A) with the A320 type rating at TFC Flight Training in Essen; the interpersonal Basic Qualification ip Ab-Initio certificate before applying; a German residence and work permit; a share of the training cost; closing date 16 November 2026); and the portal’s FAQ, headed for the 2024 program (selection in two stages, the Basic Qualification and the Corporate Qualification; DLR certificates not recognized; no operator bond; an employment contract as needed, not promised). From search results of the same pages: the A330 non-type-rated posting (job 4494: 1,000 h on Airbus A320 to A380 types or 1,500 h on multi-crew jets above 20 t; Frankfurt), the wide-body posting’s Frankfurt base, the CAP course start (June 2027, about 24 months) and its Corporate Qualification dates (February 2027). Condor’s careers page (condor.com) refused the runner (HTTP 403); in search results it says Condor regularly seeks First Officers and Captains, preferably A330- or A32X-rated, and that the portal and its postings are in German only, though the application can be completed in English.

• Read directly on 17 October 2026: Condor’s job list, the two A32X postings, the cadet posting and the portal’s FAQ. From search-engine results: the A330 postings’ requirements and base, the cadet course and Corporate Qualification dates, and Condor’s careers page. Confirm the posting is still open before you apply.
• The requirements of the A330 posting for pilots with Airbus wide-body experience
• The direct-entry selection stages after the application: Condor publishes none beyond recognizing IP BQ certificates and prioritizing A320-rated applicants
• Who pays for a non-rated First Officer’s type rating, and any bond
• Whether the portal’s FAQ, headed for the 2024 program, still describes the current cadet terms (the training cost, no operator bond, a contract as needed)
• Whether Condor recruits Captains from outside: its careers page says it regularly seeks Captains, but we found no Captain posting

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Captains only. Three easyJet pilot requisitions were open and readable on easyJet's own Taleo careers system on 2026-08-25, each with an Unposting Date of "Ongoing": (1) "Captains: A320 Rated (2027) - London Gatwick" (job 17123, req 251743, Flight Operations, permanent, Primary Location United Kingdom-London-London Gatwick Airport); (2) "Captains: Non-Type Rated (2027) - London Gatwick" (job 17124, req 251763, permanent); (3) "Captains: A320 Rated - Marrakesh (2-year Fixed Term Contract)" (job 17000, req 250063, Primary Location Morocco, contracted through Storm Global, not direct easyJet employment). A full sweep of easyJet's Taleo requisition range on 2026-08-25 found no open Direct Entry Co-Pilot / First Officer vacancy and no cadet vacancy on easyJet's own system. Pilots should not read this "hiring" as applying to First Officer or cadet entry. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: the A320-rated (2027) Captain role at London Gatwick and a non-type-rated Captain listing were still relayed by job boards, and no First Officer or cadet vacancy was found. Not re-read on the portal.

• Whether any Direct Entry Co-Pilot / First Officer vacancy is open. A sweep of easyJet's Taleo requisition ID range on 2026-08-25 returned only the three Captain vacancies listed above and no Co-Pilot vacancy. easyJet publishes generic Co-Pilot minimums but nothing live to check them against. The Captain vacancies say nothing about First Officer hiring, and the generic Co-Pilot hour figures are not an application standard: on the Captain side the generic panel does not match the live vacancies.
• Whether cadet program applications (Generation easyJet MPL via CAE, FlightCrew Futures via Skyborne) are open. easyJet's own pages carry an 'Apply now' call to action but publish no dated application window and no cadet requisition exists on easyJet's own system. The partner academies' own sites indicate applications were open in 2026 (Skyborne shows an "applications currently open" banner; CAE indicates recruitment is open), but these are partner-published, not easyJet-published, and were not corroborated on any easyJet page.
• Cadet course cost. easyJet publishes no price. Skyborne's own easyJet program page states approximately GBP 129,000 including the A320 Type Rating, and a UK CAA Class 1 plus FAA Class 3 medical before training starts. Partner-published only - not confirmed by easyJet, and not used as a requirement above.
• Whether easyJet funds, part-funds or bonds the A320 type rating for non-type-rated direct entry Captains. easyJet says only that "Funding options for the A320 Type Rating will be available". The actual cost, bond length and repayment terms are not published.
• How easyJet reconciles its generic careers-page Captain minimums with the lower/different live vacancy minimums. easyJet publishes both and explains neither. The live requisition wording is the safer basis for an application, but this has not been confirmed with easyJet's Pilot Recruitment team (PilotRecruitment@easyJet.com, published on the careers page).
• Whether the Gatwick vacancies' UK CAA license requirement is ever waived or supported by a conversion path for EASA license holders. Nothing on any easyJet page says so. An EASA-only Captain should assume they do not meet the published Gatwick criteria.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read on 18 October 2026, from search results and job-board copies, not on the portal: Edelweiss’s cockpit vacancies page (flyedelweiss.com) and its postings “Direct Entry First Officer A320 (100%, all genders) - Fast Track Möglichkeit auf A350” (an EASA Part-FCL ATPL with a valid A320 type rating and at least 1,800 h on the A320, which also opens an accelerated conversion to the A350; Class 1; Swiss or EU-27/EFTA citizenship; a fully documented record with current simulator and line checks; very good German and English, English at B2/ICAO Level 4; a jobs.ch copy dated 12 February 2026) and “Direct Entry First Officer A350 (100%, all genders)” (a valid A350 or A330 type rating, or one expired for no more than a year, with at least 1,000 h on the A350 and/or 2,000 h on the A330; Class 1; German C1 and English B2/ICAO Level 4; Swiss or EU-27/EFTA citizenship; mixed fleet flying, with A320 flying after some time). A copy of the German vacancies page archived in 2026 (Internet Archive, capture date within 2026 not known, read through the GitHub-runner fetch) listed four postings: the «Ab initio» airline pilot (training at the European Flight Academy or Lufthansa Aviation Training Switzerland), the two First Officer postings above (for the A320: with at least 1,800 h on the A320, an accelerated conversion to the A350 after joining) and a Direct Entry Freelance Commander A350, on a freelance basis, with operator conversion courses from spring 2026. Edelweiss’s assessment document “Assessment / Eignungsabklärung Ready Entry & Direct Entry First Officer” (dated 2022; flyedelweiss.com, read directly through the GitHub-runner fetch) gives six stages: the review of the application by Edelweiss and registration for the assessment at the SWISS Flight Crew Assessment Center; an assessment day (one day: group exercise, psychometrics, psychological interview, apparatus test and “ITR”); a medical check with a test for psychoactive substances (two hours); a company interview at the head office, The Circle, Zurich Airport (one hour); a session on an A320 simulator (half a day); and a board, which meets monthly; the order of the four middle stages may vary. Edelweiss’s First Officer FAQs (search results) add that the assessment tests cognitive abilities, personality traits, operational and technical competencies and social competencies based on CRM, normally takes about three to four months, is at the candidate’s own expense, and does not credit other Lufthansa Group assessment results; that preparation material comes with the invitation to each stage; that the last five years of the career must be documented; and that flying and language certificates go in with the application, made only through be-lufthansa.com/edelweiss. Earlier: the Lufthansa Group portal, read directly on 25 August 2026 for our Lufthansa entry, listed the Direct Entry Freelance Commander A350 (posted 29 January 2026); job-board copies ask for an EASA ATPL, about 5,000 h with about 1,500 in command, the A350 type rating and at least three years in command.

• Researched on 29 September and 18 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards, and from a copy of its vacancies page archived in 2026, not from a direct read of the portal; Edelweiss’s assessment document of 2022 was read directly. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether each posting is still open, and until when: we could confirm no closing date, and we do not know when in 2026 the archived copy of the vacancies page was made
• Whether the assessment still follows Edelweiss’s assessment document of 2022, which predates the A350 posting (so whether A350 applicants also fly the A320 simulator)
• Bond or type-rating cost terms

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Right-to-work wording
• What the training agreement costs the pilot or commits them to
• Captain minimums and whether a Captain vacancy is open

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Eurowings’ own cockpit careers page (careers.eurowings.com → cockpit crew) and a Eurowings Europe vacancy “First Officer (type-rated / non type-rated, WINGS Pattern PRG) A320-family” on its career.aero portal (job 3505) appeared in search results on 21 September 2026. Its fast-track Captain program is published for First Officers with 4,000 h+. Not read directly on the portal.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• First Officer hours minimum on the current vacancy
• WINGS Pattern contract terms

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read on KLM's own careers site on 25 August 2026. Two cockpit vacancies were live and accepting applications ('Solliciteer nu'): the evergreen 'Verkeersvlieger - Piloot' direct entry role (job ID 16494; JobPosting datePosted 25-04-2024, no validThrough; the page states in terms that the vacancy is open with no closing date and KLM reserves the right to close it at any moment; body text is current, referencing KLM's 2026 network of 161 destinations) and 'First Officer B747 Full Freighter' for Martinair Cargo (job ID 20850; JobPosting datePosted 24-06-2026; the page displayed 'Deze vacature sluit over 6 dagen', i.e. closing on or about 31 August 2026). A keyword search of the live jobs list returned no other flying vacancies. The KLM Flight Academy cadet route is separately open: applications for school year 2026/2027 run 01-01-2026 to 01-04-2027, with 80 students trained in 2026 across four classes. The Martinair vacancy was due to close on or about 31 August 2026, so it has closed, leaving the evergreen direct entry vacancy and the cadet route. Search results on 12 October 2026 also show KLM 'Experienced Pilot' vacancies written in English (careers.klm.com jobs 18277 and 20882) for EU passport holders, which ask for Dutch at A2 (within a year of joining, in one version) and B1 before promotion to Captain, with an online Dutch course from KLM; KLM's cockpit page still says that non-native speakers need a Dutch B2 certificate before selection, so ask KLM pilot recruitment which rule applies to the vacancy you apply for. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: the English-language “Experienced Pilot” vacancy (job 20882) was still on careers.klm.com. Not re-read on the portal. Fact-checked in search results on 13 October 2026: the English-language “Experienced Pilot” vacancies (careers.klm.com jobs 18277 and 20882) still ask for a valid type rating on a multi-pilot aircraft, to remain valid for at least three months at the start of employment, an EASA (frozen) ATPL(A), ME-IR with PBN and MCC, and 500 hours on multi-engine aircraft of 5,700 kg or more with 150 of them in commercial aviation in the 12 months before applying. Every direct-entry route therefore requires a type rating held at application, so entryHours is null by its definition (fo_min_hours() in tools/build-jobs-articles.py: null when a rating is required); the 500 hours remain in requirements.minTotalHours.

• Whether the Type Rating Course provided by KLM after selection carries a training bond, and if so its length or value — this is not published on any KLM page found.
• Whether direct entry Captain positions exist. No DEC vacancy was listed and no KLM page describes a direct entry Captain route; the direct entry vacancy refers career progression to the 'Regeling Vlieger Loopbaan' in the pilots' collective labor agreement (CAO), which suggests command is filled internally, but this could not be confirmed from a published source.
• Whether KLM Cityhopper recruits pilots separately. The English cockpit page says 'the cockpits of KLM and KLM Cityhopper', and the direct entry vacancy states KLM allocates you to a wide-body or a European aircraft, but a keyword search of the live jobs list on 25 August 2026 returned no standalone KLM Cityhopper pilot vacancy and no page states how Cityhopper placement is decided.
• Any minimum hours on type. KLM requires a valid MPA type rating but publishes no hours-on-type figure — treated here as not published rather than assumed to be zero.
• Any direct entry age limit. None is published. The retirement age of 58 comes from the pension section of the FAQ and must not be read as a maximum recruitment age.
• Whether Amsterdam Schiphol is formally KLM's SOLE pilot base. Schiphol is the only location published on the current cockpit vacancies and on the Martinair full-freighter operation, but KLM does not say that no other pilot base exists, so Schiphol is given here as the published location, not as the only one.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 18 October 2026 through the GitHub runner: Loganair’s flight-crew careers page (loganair.co.uk/info/careers/flight-crew, the same page as loganair.co.uk/pilotcareers): “We are currently only recruiting for Direct Entry Captains”, so it was recruiting only Direct Entry Captains, with an Airline Returners Programme for pilots who have previously completed a type rating in either seat, bases including Edinburgh, Manchester, Jersey, Glasgow and the Isle of Man, a minimum of three years to command, and flight school partners Leading Edge Aviation, Skyborne Aviation Academy and Ravenair (tagging arrangements, tailored programs, further schemes in development); Loganair’s pilot careers brochure (PDF linked from that page; its bases map “correct as of 24th July 2025”): the requirements for every pilot, a minimum of 1,000 PIC hours for command roles, 1,000 flight hours for experienced First Officers with preference to type-rated pilots, and a fully paid, bonded type rating; its recruitment site (loganair.my.salesforce-sites.com/recruit): four current vacancies, the only pilot one the Direct Entry Captain posting (VN097, all bases and fleets, applications close 30 November 2026), asking for a full UK CAA ATPL with a current Class 1, current or recent multi-crew experience, 1,000 h as pilot in command of multi-crew aircraft over 10 t or with more than 19 seats in passenger commercial air transport and, for the Embraer, 500 h in command of a multi-crew jet, with an ERJ 145 or ATR 42/72 rating desirable, and offering a paper bond for the type rating with no upfront cost; VN041, the Newly Qualified First Officer – Non Type Rated listing in search results, answered “That job is no longer open for applications”; its Airline Returners application form (loganair.co.uk/airline-returners-scheme): a UK CAA license, a UK CAA Class 1 held now or before, eligibility to live and work indefinitely in the UK and the brochure’s other criteria, with up to three preferred bases among Aberdeen, City of Derry, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, the Isle of Man, Newcastle and Southampton; its mentored APS MCC course page (with CRM Aviation Europe): “Applications Are Currently Closed”, no intake dates listed, and the course’s steps to a Loganair simulator assessment and interview and the hold pool. In search results the same day: VN041’s terms as job boards copied them (a September 2024 intake, no minimum hours) and the Airline Returners Scheme as Loganair announced it on 19 August 2025 (a four-month program of refresher training). Earlier checks: 16 October 2026 (the careers page, read directly) and 21 September 2026 (search results).

• Read directly on 18 October 2026: Loganair’s flight-crew careers page, its pilot careers brochure, its mentored APS MCC course page, its recruitment site (the vacancy list, the Direct Entry Captain posting VN097 and the closed VN041) and its Airline Returners application form. Researched on 18 October 2026 from search-engine results: the terms of the 2024 Newly Qualified First Officer listing (VN041) and of the Airline Returners Programme as Loganair announced it in August 2025. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• The bond on the type rating: the brochure says the rating is fully paid and bonded, and the Captain posting calls it a paper bond with no upfront cost, but neither gives its amount or length
• Loganair’s selection stages for Direct Entry Captains and returners, which it does not publish
• When the Airline Returners Programme’s next training starts, and whether it still runs as the four-month program Loganair announced in August 2025: the application form gives neither
• What the flight school partners’ tagging arrangements offer, and whether any is open now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Captain hours minimums
• Contract terms compared with Lufthansa mainline

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

9 live pilot/cadet vacancies were open on Ryanair's own application portal pilotjobs.ryanair.com when checked directly on 25 Aug 2026, and careers.ryanair.com states 'we currently have a number of open positions for experienced Pilots across the entire Group'. Re-verified against the live portal and each individual vacancy page on 25 Aug 2026. Ryanair does not publish posting or closing dates on its vacancy pages, so the only date attached to this is the date of observation (25 Aug 2026); the B737 Buzz ads say training courses commence 'this winter'. Note that 3 of the 9 listings are Challenger business-jet roles and 2 of those are 'Expression of Interest' only, not confirmed open crewing positions. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: a Buzz “Direct Entry B737 Non-Type Rated First Officers” posting, dated 24 June 2026, with courses starting in the winter, was still indexed on Ryanair’s own jobs site. Not re-read on the portal.

• Posting date and closing date for every current vacancy - Ryanair publishes neither on its vacancy pages, and there is no JSON-LD JobPosting or datePosted metadata. Status is therefore evidenced by direct observation of the live portal on 25 Aug 2026 rather than by a dated company announcement.
• Whether a type rating for Direct Entry Non-Type-Rated First Officers and Captains is company-funded, self-funded or bonded - not published on any of the vacancy pages.
• Minimum age for any route - only the 'not over 65' upper limit is published.
• Whether Ryanair DAC or Malta Air are separately recruiting Direct Entry B737 First Officers - the current experienced B737 vacancies are all advertised under Buzz. Absence of a DAC/Malta Air ad is not proof they are not hiring.
• The full list of pilot bases - the group reports about 95 bases (2026) but publishes no pilot base list; only the bases named in current vacancies are confirmed. Ryanair announced in April 2026 that it would close its Berlin Brandenburg base from 24 October 2026 (Bloomberg, UK Aviation News).
• Future Flyer Academy specific entry requirements (age, education, aptitude thresholds, cost, and what proportion of training is actually sponsored) - Ryanair publishes the three gateways but defers the detailed requirements and all pricing to its partner flight schools' own websites, which were not fetched. A pilot should not assume 'part-sponsored' means a low out-of-pocket cost.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Five pilot vacancies were live on SAS's own careers portal when checked on 2026-08-25: Experienced First Officer (Scandinavian bases), A320neo First Officer (London Heathrow), Direct Entry Captain A320 (Copenhagen), Direct Entry Captain E195 TR/NTR (all bases), and A320neo Captain (London Heathrow). SAS does not print posting or closing dates on its job pages, but the postings themselves are internally dated: the Experienced FO ad states 'First courses are planned for the Fall 2026', the Heathrow A320neo FO ad offers assessment dates 'available from August' through September with courses 'planned late 2026 and early 2027', and the DEC A320 ad states assessment invitations during summer/fall 2026 with employment beginning fall 2026/spring 2027. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: the Direct Entry Captain E195 (type-rated or not, all bases) posting was still on SAS’s own careers site, which ties it to up to 55 E195-E2s joining the fleet from 2027, and job boards relayed the A320 Direct Entry Captain and experienced First Officer postings. Not re-read on the portal.

• Age limits - no minimum or maximum age is published on any SAS pilot page or vacancy reviewed. Do not infer one.
• Cadet / ab-initio entry - the Cadet First Officer posting (careers.sasgroup.net/job/Kastrup-CADET-FIRST-OFFICER/1288108301/) now returns 'Sorry, this position has been filled', so current cadet entry requirements, costs, bonding and selection criteria could not be confirmed. Treat any cadet figures found on job boards as stale.
• Hours on type - not published for any role.
• Minimum total hours for the London Heathrow A320neo First Officer role - not published.
• Whether the First Officer type rating carries a bond. SAS's team pages say the type rating is paid for by SAS and the Experienced FO ad contains no bonding sentence, but the Captain ads state an explicit 3-year bond, so FO bond terms are not confirmed either way.
• Posting and closing dates - SAS's careers portal does not display them, so 'currently open' is a point-in-time observation from 2026-08-25 rather than a dated announcement from SAS.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Type-rating cost, funding and bond for the non-rated routes
• Total-time minimum for the Type Rated First Officer B737 route
• Right-to-work wording for the First Officer vacancies

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

SWISS’s own vacancy “Direct Entry First Officer A320” (apply.lufthansagroup.careers job 109486, posted 16 July 2026) was live on the Lufthansa Group portal when the portal was read directly on 25 August 2026 for our Lufthansa entry, and it and SWISS’s pilots careers page appeared in search results on 21 September 2026. A “Direct Entry First Officer A330” advert (portal job 113667) is still relayed by job boards, but the portal returned it as withdrawn (HTTP 410) on 25 August 2026.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Hours minimums for each vacancy
• Whether the A320 vacancy requires the type rating: job-board copies seen in October 2026 ask for a valid A320 type rating and 800 hours on the A320 family, while an older version accepted non-rated pilots with 600 turbine hours.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Status is 'hiring' on two pieces of evidence re-confirmed on Wizz Air's own domain on 25 August 2026: (1) the general 'Pilot Application Form' vacancy is live on careers.wizzair.com and accepts all pilot categories, and (2) the cadet programs publish explicit 2026 course start dates (WAPA 12/10/2026; She Can Fly 25 May 2026 and 12 October 2026). Evidence is not uniform across routes. Captain: on 25 August the Pilot Jobs page listed Wizz Air Hungary Budapest assessment events on 25-26 August, 3-4 September and 23-24 September (all now past) with open positions 'TR DEC, NTR DEC, TR DEC Program, NTR DEC Program' (Direct Entry Captain routes only), and Wizz Air Malta events in Rome 15-18 October and Spain 21-24 and 25-28 October — but all of these event dates are printed without a year. First Officer: no dated assessment event is advertised for the Hungary AOC at all, and the previously separate rated-FO postings are closed ('Sorry, this position has been filled'). Wizz Air UK shows 'No Recruitment Events at the moment'. A First Officer should read this as 'applications open, pool entry' — not as a confirmed active FO campaign. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: job boards had relayed Wizz Air Hungary Direct Entry Captain assessment events in Budapest up to August 2026, and no First Officer assessment event was found. Not re-read on the portal.

• The year of the Wizz Air Hungary assessment event dates. The page prints '25-26 August', '3-4 September' and '23-24 September' with no year. They are almost certainly 2026 given the page was live on 25 August 2026, but the same page carries a stale '© 2024' footer and a stale February Wizz Air UK banner, so the dates cannot be independently confirmed as current.
• Whether Wizz Air Hungary is currently taking First Officers. The requirements are published and the Pilot Application Form is open to FOs, but the only dated WAH assessment events list Captain routes (TR DEC, NTR DEC, TR DEC Program, NTR DEC Program) as the open positions. FO applicants may be held in the pool — the airline's own FAQ says candidates are notified 'as soon as slots are available'. Treat FO recruitment for the Hungary AOC as pool rather than confirmed active.
• Type rating cost, bond or repayment terms for non-type-rated DIRECT ENTRY First Officers and Captains. Wizz Air publishes these terms only for the cadet/academy routes. The WAPA EUR 40,000/25,000 figures are published for the academy only and do not apply to direct entry.
• The detailed content of the experienced-pilot assessment day. Wizz Air publishes only that a selection event takes place and its location and duration. Descriptions circulating on third-party preparation sites (written test, group exercise, technical and HR interview, A320 full-flight simulator check, psychometric evaluation) are NOT published by Wizz Air and could not be confirmed on the airline's own domain. Wizz Air explicitly states it has no affiliation with any such preparation provider.
• Any maximum age limit. None is published for any route.
• The factorized hours table used to assess Captain applications. It is hosted at onedoor.wizzair.com, which is not publicly accessible, so the actual multipliers per aircraft category could not be read.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Entry requirements for the Copilot and Commander pools
• Cadet program age limit and training cost

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Jet2’s own careers site vacancy “Permanent Non Type-Rated Pilots – Various” (jet2careers.com vacancy 6905) and its Pilot Careers / application-routes pages appeared in search results on 21 September 2026, with UK job boards relaying A321 and B737 rated First Officer and Captain recruitment across its UK bases. Not read directly on the portal. Read directly on 16 October 2026 (jet2careers.com vacancy 6905, “Non Type-Rated Pilots”, fetched through the GitHub runner): “We are building our Talent Pool for all ranks for 2027”, accepting applications for the A320 or B737 fleets. Minimums by rank: Captain 3,000 h with 1,000 h PIC on a medium-heavy commercial multi-crew, multi-engine jet; Senior First Officer a frozen or unfrozen ATPL, 2,000 factorized h and 500 h multi-crew/multi-engine jet or turboprop above 10 t; First Officer a frozen or unfrozen ATPL and 500 h multi-crew/multi-engine jet or turboprop above 10 t. Current or former military pilots are considered for all ranks. A valid UK-issued license, ELP Level 5 minimum and a current Class 1. “Jet2 is a Home Office–approved sponsor and we welcome applications from eligible candidates for a UK Skilled Worker visa who currently don't have the right to work in the UK.” Pilots below the minimums are pointed to Jet2FlightPath (cadets) or the Future Second Officer program (frozen ATPL holders); the vacancy gives no Second Officer hours.

• Read directly on 16 October 2026: vacancy 6905 on jet2careers.com. Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results: the Second Officer route (vacancy 6905 names a Future Second Officer program for frozen-ATPL holders without giving its hours), the rated recruitment relayed by job boards and the medical validity rule. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Which bases each rank is open at right now
• Whether rated First Officer and Captain vacancies are open beside the 2027 talent pool

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-verified 25 Aug 2026 against Lufthansa Group's own job portal (apply.lufthansagroup.careers). Using the portal's official Pilot job-category filter (the same 'See Jobs' link the Lufthansa Group pilot careers page itself points to), 10 cockpit vacancies are live across the Group and not one is advertised by Deutsche Lufthansa AG. Separate keyword searches for 'pilot' and 'cockpit' also return no Deutsche Lufthansa AG cockpit vacancy (the only Deutsche Lufthansa AG results are non-flying roles: an Internship Flight Operations and two legal-trainee posts). The only pilot-entry applications open under the Lufthansa mainline brand are the ab-initio ATPL program at the European Flight Academy, whose two listings on the Group portal (posted 04/10/2024 and 15/10/2024) are still live and whose 'Apply now' page is open, with the caveat published there: 'Currently, we have more applicants than selection spots, so unfortunately, you may have to expect some waiting time.' Direct-entry cockpit vacancies do exist elsewhere in the Group (SWISS, Edelweiss, Lufthansa City Airlines, Air Dolomiti) but those are separate AOCs and separate legal employers, not Deutsche Lufthansa AG. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: no Deutsche Lufthansa direct-entry vacancy was found, and a pilot-jobs tracker (March 2026) described the mainline First Officer intake as European Flight Academy cadets only; Lufthansa City Airlines, Condor and Edelweiss postings were relayed separately. Not re-read on the portal.

• Lufthansa City Airlines, a Group airline, has live A220 First Officer and A220/A320 Captain vacancies on the Group portal (seen in search results 21 September 2026). It is listed separately on this board; it is not Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
• Whether Deutsche Lufthansa AG runs any direct-entry (experienced or type-rated) First Officer or Captain recruitment at all. No such vacancy and no published requirements were found on Lufthansa's own sites on 25 Aug 2026. Absence of a listing is not proof the route does not exist - it may open in waves. Supporting this: a Group 'Direct Entry First Officer A330' advert (portal id 113667) still indexed by search engines now returns HTTP 410 Gone, i.e. Group direct-entry ads do appear and are later withdrawn. The withdrawn page no longer shows the employing airline; job boards still relaying it attribute it to SWISS.
• Any minimum total hours, hours on type, or type-rating/bonding terms for a Lufthansa mainline direct-entry pilot. Nothing is published.
• Who pays for the first type rating and on what bonding terms. EFA's FAQ indicates the type rating sits outside the ~24-month program, but neither the cost pages nor any Lufthansa page states whether the hiring airline funds, charges or bonds it.
• Whether an ICAO English Level 4 minimum is formally applied to Lufthansa mainline. Lufthansa's own airline-requirements table quotes ICAO Level 4 for Edelweiss, Austrian and Eurowings but for Lufthansa states only 'English: required, written and oral'.
• Any upper age limit. None is published on the selection-process page or the FAQ; only the lower limit of 17 at application.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a new pilot call will open
• Total-hours minimum beyond the 500 h on type

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether First Officer applications are open now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether vacancies are open now and their hours minimums

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the cadet program has a 2026/27 intake open
• Direct-entry hours minimums

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 18 October 2026 through the GitHub runner: Cargolux’s “Requirements & selection process” page (cargolux.com/careers/Jobs-in-the-Air/Our-Requirements), published for pilots non-type-rated and type-rated on the B747-400: 1,500 hours of multi-pilot multi-engine time on jet aircraft or on CS-25 turboprops with an MTOW above 10 tons or more than 19 seats; an EASA Part-FCL ATPL, or CPL/IR with ATPL theory, or MPL; an EASA Class 1 medical; a full secondary education diploma; ICAO English Level 4, preferably Level 6; as essential requirements, authorization to live and work within the European Union, a security background check and a pre-employment medical test, unrestricted rights for international travel and agreement to transfer your license to a Luxembourg-issued EASA license; and the selection stages, from the online application to the company interview. The page lists no open position and the job openings were not read, so the status is unconfirmed. From search-engine results on 18 October 2026: job-board copies of its First Officer postings say “Type rating: Not required (Training Provided)”, and its order for ten 777-8 Freighters, signed with Boeing in 2022, stands, with the program delayed (Air Journal; airinsight). On 21 September 2026 the same careers pages appeared in search results, stating that Cargolux recruits experienced pilots only.

• Read directly on 18 October 2026: Cargolux’s requirements and selection page. From search-engine results on 18 October 2026: the B747 type rating provided (job-board copies of its postings) and the 777-8F order. Confirm a vacancy is open before you apply.
• Whether a First Officer vacancy is open now: the requirements page lists none, and Cargolux’s job openings were not read
• Who pays for the B747 type rating, and whether it is bonded: Cargolux’s page and the postings in search results do not say

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Which vacancies are open now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a vacancy is open now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 (the fleet re-checked on 13 October 2026) from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether applications are open now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Unconfirmed since 25 August 2026, because no pilot application route could be verified as open. What is solidly established, from ITA Airways' own press release dated Rome, 16 July 2026 (text re-read and verified verbatim on 25 Aug 2026): ITA has begun planning its first Multi Pilot License (MPL) ab-initio courses, ~280 pilots over four years, 21-month courses, selection starting in July 2026 and first courses starting October 2026. That press release links to exactly one application page, career.ita-airways.com/job/CORSO-MPL/912-it_IT/ (the link in the PDF itself). As re-checked on 25 August 2026 that page returns 'Impossibile visualizzare questo lavoro perche non e disponibile al momento' ('this job cannot be displayed because it is not available at this time'), and a keyword search of ITA's own career portal for pilot / pilota / comandante / MPL / cadet / first officer returns no pilot vacancies. ITA publishes no direct-entry First Officer or Captain route at all. So the position is: a real, funded cadet program exists, but there is no open pilot application to send anyone to today, and ITA publishes no date for a further intake. Whether the MPL window is closed between intakes, permanently closed, or merely offline in error is not published anywhere - which is why the status is 'Unconfirmed' rather than 'Cadet only'; ITA Airways was not recruiting pilots that day. Update, 5 October 2026: Italian press (QuiFinanza, qds.it) reported that ITA published two pilot vacancies on its own site on 19 December 2025, with permanent contracts, asking for an EASA type rating on the A320 or A220 with at least 500 h (simulator excluded) or 500 h on an EASA-rated CAT airplane over 30 t, and job boards relayed A220 and A320-family First Officer listings for Rome and Milan that have since closed. ITA therefore does recruit type-rated First Officers in campaigns; none was open on 25 August 2026. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: no open ITA pilot application was found; the press coverage is of the MPL plan (about 280 pilots over four years, first courses from October 2026) and of the closed December 2025 First Officer call. Not re-read on the portal.

• The reported MPL course cost of approximately EUR 135,000 (VAT exempt) - widely reported by Italian media (Il Sole 24 Ore, Leggo, TGCom24, falcovbs.com) but NOT stated anywhere in ITA Airways' own press release or on ita-airways.com. Treat as unconfirmed.
• Whether the cadet self-funds the course at all, or whether ITA bonds/subsidizes any part of it - ITA publishes nothing on this.
• Whether employment as an ITA Airways First Officer is guaranteed on completion. Italian media (IlFaroOnline) report 'assunzione al termine del percorso' (hiring at the end of the course); ITA's own press release does NOT state a guaranteed job offer - it speaks only of building a pool of trained talent and planning turnover.
• The partnership with Urbe Aero Flight Academy for the first flying phases: reported by Halldale and Avionews (theory at the ITA Airways Training Center at Rome-Fiumicino, the Core and Basic phases at Urbe Aero with at least 161 h of actual and simulated flight plus 3 h of UPRT per cadet, then A220 and A320 full-flight simulators at Fiumicino), but not named in ITA’s own press release.
• The detailed MPL selection stages (number of rounds, test content, interview format, sim assessment, pass marks) - the ITA vacancy page that would have carried these is now offline.
• The exact closing date of the MPL application window, and whether/when a further MPL selection round will open. ITA states ~280 pilots over four years, which implies further intakes, but no future dates are published.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the relayed postings are live

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether direct-entry First Officer or Captain vacancies are open
• Cadet program dates, age limits and repayment terms of the pre-financing
• Current fleet mix — not confirmed on the careers pages

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Both First Officer vacancies that were live on Norwegian's own careers site when it was read on 25 August 2026, 'First Officer B737' (Req. Id 2962) and 'Experienced Non Type Rated First Officers' (Req. Id 2976), carried an application deadline of 31.08.2026, which has passed, and no newer Norwegian pilot vacancy surfaced in search results on 21 September 2026 (the careers portal could not be read directly then). The status is therefore unconfirmed until the portal shows a new vacancy. No Captain and no cadet vacancy was listed.

• Age limits - no minimum or maximum age is published on either vacancy
• Type rating funding and bonding for the non-type-rated route - not published; do not assume the rating is free or that it is self-funded
• Total-time minimum for the type-rated B737 First Officer route - only the 500 hours on type is published
• Direct entry Captain - no captain vacancy was advertised on Norwegian's careers site on 25 August 2026, and it is not established whether DEC is offered at other times
• Specific base airports - the ads name only the six countries, not the individual bases; Oslo Gardermoen appears as the posting location rather than a confirmed base allocation
• Partner-school route detail - Norwegian's own December 2024 press release names the four schools but publishes no entry requirements, selection criteria, cost, bond terms or intake numbers, and gives no indication of how many graduates are actually hired

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the relayed posting is live
• Expatriate eligibility

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether vacancies are open now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether Transavia Netherlands has an open vacancy now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

As of 25 Aug 2026 Turkish Airlines' own careers portal (careers.turkishairlines.com) lists no open positions in every category, including Cockpit Crew — the page renders its explicit 'no postings' empty state with a 'Remind Me When There Are Vacant Positions' button, on both the EN and TR versions. The dedicated cockpit application portal (apply.turkishairlines.com) redirects its 'Jobs' link to that same empty list, and the Announcements page is empty. No dated statement of hiring, pooling or pausing is published anywhere on THY's own domains, so status is reported as unknown rather than inferred. THY has no standing pilot advert: recruitment runs in campaign windows, so an empty list today does not mean the door is shut — it means there is nothing open to apply to right now. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: no 2026 experienced-pilot campaign from Turkish Airlines was found. Not re-read on the portal.

• Search results on 21 September 2026 show Flight Crew International describing itself as an official Turkish Airlines recruitment agent seeking type-rated and non-type-rated pilots, with weekly five-day screenings in Istanbul, and PilotsGlobal relaying an A330 First Officer posting (1,500 h, ATPL). Neither was confirmed on careers.turkishairlines.com, which showed no cockpit vacancies when read directly on 25 August 2026.
• Current recruitment status — no dated statement of hiring, pooling or pausing exists on any THY-owned page. The empty vacancy list is evidence there is nothing open to apply to today, not evidence of a declared pause.
• Minimum total hours for direct entry First Officer — not published by THY in any form.
• Minimum total hours / PIC hours for direct entry Captain — not published.
• Hours on type for any experienced role — not published.
• License required for experienced entry (ATPL vs frozen ATPL, EASA vs Turkish SHGM issue, license conversion requirements) — not published.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Virgin Atlantic’s own careers site posting “First Officer & Senior First Officer – Airbus” (careers.virginatlantic.com/search-and-apply) and its Pilots and Pilot FAQ pages appeared in search results on 21 September 2026, relayed by UK pilot job boards. Not read directly on the portal. Re-checked on 16 October 2026. In search results: a search-engine copy of the posting on Virgin Atlantic’s own careers site gave a closing date of 29 September 2026, and job boards’ copies gave closing dates from 2 July to early October 2026; the copies ask for 1,500 hours as First Officer, or 3,000 as Senior First Officer, on a multi-pilot turbojet or turboprop of at least 10 tonnes or with more than 19 seats, and for an unfrozen UK CAA ATPL with a valid type rating at joining. Read directly the same day through the GitHub runner: the posting’s page (careers.virginatlantic.com/search-and-apply/first-officer-senior-first-officer-airbus) returned “not found” (HTTP 404), so the posting is no longer on the careers site; no newer Virgin Atlantic pilot posting was found in search results.

• Researched on 21 September 2026, and re-checked on 16 October 2026, from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards; on 16 October 2026 the posting’s page, read directly, returned “not found”. Confirm whether a vacancy is open before you apply.
• Whether the Airbus First Officer posting has been replaced by a newer one: job boards’ copies give closing dates from 2 July to early October 2026
• Whether a frozen ATPL or an MPL is accepted: the research of 21 September 2026 said so, but the copies of the 2026 posting seen on 16 October 2026 ask for an unfrozen ATPL issued by the UK CAA, with a valid type rating at joining

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a new intake has opened since May 2026

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Both published pilot routes are closed to applications. The airline's own Direct Entry Pilots page states verbatim 'Applications for the 2025/26 Direct Entry Pilot Programme are now closed. Thank you for your interest.' and its Future Pilot Programme page states 'The Future Pilot Programme is now closed for applications.' Both pages were read directly on aerlingus.com on 25 August 2026. The Aer Lingus Media Centre press-release listing for 2026 (most recent item 17 June 2026, listing checked back to 19 February 2026) contains no pilot-recruitment announcement. No reopening date, candidate pool or expression-of-interest facility is published for either route. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: no newer Aer Lingus direct-entry or Future Pilot Programme campaign was found. Not re-read on the portal.

• As of search results on 21 September 2026 the Direct Entry Pilot page still read “Application process has now closed” and no 2026 Future Pilot Programme intake had been announced (airmappr, May 2026).
• Whether a non-type-rated ATPL / frozen-ATPL holder is eligible for Direct Entry - the essential criteria list an Airbus rating, but the same page publishes an 'Airbus non-Type Rated' starting salary. Aer Lingus does not reconcile this and we could not resolve it from any Aer Lingus source. Ask Aer Lingus before you apply.
• Whether, or when, Aer Lingus will reopen Direct Entry Pilot recruitment - no date, pool or expression-of-interest facility is published, and there is no 2026 announcement in the media center
• Whether a 2026 or 2027 Future Pilot Programme intake will run - Aer Lingus has published no statement either way; forum and aggregator posts claiming HR said there are no current plans for 2026 could not be corroborated on any Aer Lingus source and are NOT relied on here
• Any minimum total flying hours figure - none is published by Aer Lingus for any route. Any hours number seen on pilot job boards for Aer Lingus is unsourced
• Any minimum hours on the Airbus type - not published

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

No pilot vacancy is open. Checked live on 25 Aug 2026: Iberia's own careers portal pilot category states 'En este momento, no hay ninguna vacante acorde a esta categoria o ubicacion' (0 vacancies), the searchable portal returns 0 results for 'cadete', and the last direct-entry vacancy page now returns 'Lo sentimos, esta posicion ya esta cubierta'. All three checks were made directly on trabajaconnosotros.iberia.es today. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: no newer Iberia pilot call was found; the sixth Iberia Cadetes edition with FTEJerez, announced in early 2026, took applications until early March 2026 (reports give 6 or 8 March). Not re-read on the portal.

• Iberia's own press-release pages (grupo.iberia.es and grupo.iberia.com) returned HTTP 403 to automated retrieval on 25 Aug 2026, so the direct-entry figures above could NOT be read off an Iberia-owned page during this check. They rest on two independent trade reports dated the same day as the press release. A pilot relying on them should open the Iberia press release in a normal browser to confirm.
• The exact closing date of the July 2025 direct-entry call. Two independent trade reports dated 09 Jul 2025 both state 31 December 2025, and that is what is recorded above; it could not be confirmed on a live Iberia page because the vacancy now only shows as filled.
• The exact closing date of the 6th cadet call. Reports differ between 6 March 2026 and 8 March 2026; neither could be confirmed on an Iberia page. What is confirmed is that the call is closed.
• Whether the Iberia cadet loan is genuinely interest-free. Earlier wording here said 'interest-free'; the FTEJerez FAQ describes a 50% loan repaid by payroll deduction but the interest terms were not confirmed in the material read. Treat as unknown.
• The fleet list above. Iberia's own fleet page returned HTTP 403 on 25 Aug 2026 and could not be re-verified. In particular, the A321neo is reported by third parties as operated by Iberia Express rather than Iberia mainline, and the mainline/Iberia Express split of A320ceo and A321neo could not be confirmed on an Iberia page. The fleet list is indicative only and is not an eligibility criterion.
• The detailed selection stages. Iberia publishes only that the process is staged and in groups and that pre-selected candidates are emailed test details. Aggregator sites describe a four-stage process (online application, selection tests, simulator and interview, training) and describe psychometric testing, group exercises, a simulator assessment and an HR/technical interview - none of this is confirmed on any Iberia page and it is NOT reported here as fact.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

No pilot vacancies are open on TAP's own recruitment portal: the Pilots category page states "There are currently no open positions matching this category or location" and "Spontaneous applications for First Officer are not accepted. We'll post an announcement when new opportunities for this feature arise" (checked 25 August 2026, same text in the Portuguese version). TAP's own category RSS feed, with a lastBuildDate of Tue, 25 Aug 2026, returns "No jobs currently available". The most recent pilot campaign, competition ref. OP6NOV2025 (announced 6 November 2025, applications closing 10 November 2025), now returns "Lamentamos, esta vaga ja foi preenchida" ("we are sorry, this vacancy has already been filled") on TAP's own job page, and its governing regulation limited it to Company Integration Courses starting up to 30 April 2026 - a validity window that has now expired. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: no newer TAP pilot competition was found. Not re-read on the portal.

• The 500 h total time minimum for the OP6NOV2025 campaign. Aggregator-sourced only (empregoestagios.com, 7 November 2025); TAP's own announcement page is offline and not archived, and the regulation PDF does not contain the figure. The September 2024 campaign published no hours minimum, so this is not a stable TAP standard.
• The 12th-grade education minimum, the Portuguese-language requirement, the ICAO English Level 4 minimum and the Advanced UPRT requirement - all taken from aggregator reproductions of the campaign announcement rather than a live TAP page.
• The requirement for valid ATPL theory exams and for MCC training. Aggregator-sourced only. Verified absent from TAP's regulation PDF: the strings 'ATPL', 'MCC' and 'Multi Crew' do not occur anywhere in it, and clause 3.4 lists only CPL(A), IR, ME and the Class 1 medical. A pilot should not assume ATPL theory credit or an MCC certificate is either required or sufficient until TAP publishes the next announcement.
• The claim that more than two prior failures in TAP pilot competitions is disqualifying - aggregator-sourced, not found in TAP's regulation.
• Any age limit. Nothing found either way; reported as 'not published' rather than 'none'.
• Visa sponsorship or right-to-work policy for non-EU candidates. TAP publishes nothing; the ANAC license-transfer and Portuguese-language conditions are the only related published items.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 18 October 2026 through the GitHub runner: TUI’s global pilot FAQ (careers.tuigroup.com/en/global-pilot-faq): one application per cycle to one AOC (the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden or the UK), the license held before applying and issued for the AOC’s country (EASA for Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, converted if another EU state issued it; UK CAA for the UK), the unrestricted right to live and work in the AOC’s country and an EU passport for European-based positions, assessments in English at the candidate’s own travel cost, three selection stages named (psychometric assessments, an assessment center and a simulator assessment), two attempts at most, the Pilot Talent Pool for up to 12 months, bases, standby times (60 minutes at most bases, 120 in Belgium), training start months and content, and aircraft training as well for low-hour or military pilots not eligible for zero flight time training; the FAQ no longer mentions the MPL Cadet Programme. A search of TUI’s careers site for “pilot” found four results, none a pilot vacancy (a cruise ship’s Staff Captain, an aircraft engineer and two internships). The pages of TUI fly Belgium’s B737 type-rated and non-type-rated postings of June 2026, of TUI fly Netherlands’ type-rated First Officer B737 posting of late 2025 and of two older vacancies (job/126966_en, and job/126977_en, a “Military Pilot – UK Bases (S25)” posting in search results) showed only the careers site’s general content. Job-board copies read the same day: Flexa’s copy of TUI’s “B737 Non-Type Rated Pilot – UK Bases” vacancy said the job was no longer available and kept its requirements (UK CAA CPL with ATPL theory credits, UK CAA Class 1, ICAO Level 4, MCC and Advanced UPRT, zero flight time eligibility of 500 h or 100 route sectors, no visa sponsorship, 90 minutes’ standby reach); an Internet Archive copy of Flygtorget’s listing of TUIfly Nordic’s “First Officers 737 Arlanda or Gothenburg” (rated, 12 positions, published 7 May 2026) and its non-rated 737 posting (6 positions, published 12 May 2026), both closing on 31 July 2026. In search results: TUI fly Belgium’s June 2026 type-rated, non-type-rated and “B737 Low Hour Pilot” postings, the low-hour one for less than 500 h in total; TUI fly Netherlands’ 2026 B737 and B787 type-rated and B737 low-hour postings, and its late-2025 type-rated First Officer B737 posting (a completed line check, ICAO Level 5, and five selection steps from a CV screening to a psychological assessment); TUI’s MPL FAQ saying it would not run its MPL Cadet scheme in 2026 (also Flight Training News, 2 January 2026). Earlier checks: 16 October 2026 (the two UK vacancy pages, read directly, led to the careers home page, with no vacancy shown) and 21 September 2026 (search results).

• Read directly on 18 October 2026: TUI’s global pilot FAQ, a search of its careers site for pilot vacancies, and the pages of three Belgian and Dutch postings and two older vacancies, which showed only the careers site’s general content. From job-board copies and search-engine results, 21 September to 18 October 2026: the 2026 vacancies and their requirements, the Dutch posting’s selection steps, the MPL decision and the fleet. Confirm a vacancy is open before you apply.
• When TUI next recruits pilots, and at which AOCs: its FAQ gives training starts from June in the Netherlands, from August in Belgium and from late October to November in the UK and Sweden, but no recruitment dates
• The hours asked of type-rated First Officers: the 2026 copies we read gave none; older UK postings asked for 100 h, or 500 h, on the B737
• The terms of TUI fly Netherlands’ 2026 “B737 Low Hour Pilot” posting and of the UK military pilot route, and the rest of TUI fly Belgium’s low-hour posting beyond its hours, license, MCC and AUPRT
• Whether the selection steps of TUI fly Netherlands’ late-2025 posting, from the online psychometric assessment to the psychological assessment, apply at every AOC
• Who pays for a non-rated or low-hour pilot’s type rating, and any bond: TUI publishes neither in the material we read

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

No pilot vacancy is open on Vueling's own careers site as of 25 Aug 2026. Three Vueling-owned endpoints were checked live on that date and all agree: the Pilots landing page shows 'No matching jobs'; the Pilots department page shows 'No matching jobs' and 'Closed Call. Connect with us to be notified.'; and the site's own jobs RSS feed lists roughly a dozen live vacancies (newest posted 20 Aug 2026), none of them flight crew. The last direct-entry call, 'First Officer A320 - 2026', now returns 'This position is no longer active. Either the position was filled, or the ad has expired.' The FTEJerez cadet route is also shut: 'The Vueling MAPS will return, but is currently closed for applications' (checked live 25 Aug 2026). An expression-of-interest 'Connect' talent pool for the Pilots department remains open. 'paused' rather than 'unknown' is used here because the closure is evidenced by dated, airline-owned pages checked today — not by inference. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: no newer Vueling pilot call was found; job boards mark the 2026 First Officer A320 call closed. Not re-read on the portal.

• Social-media posts by a training provider (AET Aviation, autumn 2026) advertise a Vueling non-type-rated A320 First Officer campaign based Barcelona. This was NOT confirmed on careers.vueling.com in search results on 21 September 2026 — the status here still reflects the direct read of 25 August 2026. Check the Vueling careers page before relying on either.
• Meaning of '200 Factorized Vueling Hours' — Vueling does not define 'factorized' or 'Vueling hours' anywhere on its careers site. Aggregators contradict each other (300 vs 200). Treat as undefined.
• Whether the A320 type rating is provided, bonded or must be self-funded — not stated by Vueling. Claims that Vueling pays for the OCC under the SEPLA collective agreement and has ended pay-to-fly come from third-party career blogs only.
• All selection process stages listed above — sourced from third-party pilot-jobs sites and training providers, never from Vueling's own site.
• Age limits — no source found, on Vueling's site or elsewhere, that Vueling publishes any.
• Right-to-work / visa policy — not published; the Spanish EASA license requirement is an inference about the practical gate, not a quoted Vueling statement.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Search results of 13 October 2026 showed “First Officer – Alaska Airlines” postings on careers.alaskaair.com (SeaTac, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Anchorage, Portland and San Diego), the pilot page careers.alaskaair.com/career-opportunities/pilots/alaska-hawaiian-airlines/ with separate requirements and domiciles for the Alaska and Hawaiian seniority lists, and a “First Officer – Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines” posting at Hebron, Kentucky (the Cincinnati airport) carrying the Hawaiian-list terms. The Alaska-list posting asks for an FAA Commercial with Instrument–Airplane, the ATP aeronautical experience of 14 CFR 61.159 and a current ATP written, with the ATP certificate preferred; the Hawaiian list asks for the ATP. The San Diego pilot base was announced in December 2025 to open on 1 June 2026. No ratified joint Alaska–Hawaiian pilot contract was found. Not read directly on the portal. Fact-checked the same day from search results: the Alaska-list posting (requisition 2026-20137) and Alaska’s pilot page list 500 h turbine PIC and the ATP certificate as preferred, and the posting asks for a passport with at least six months of validity; ALPA said in August 2026 that the joint contract negotiations were still under way; Alaska Air Group’s release of 7 January 2026 gives a firm future 787 fleet of 17, five then in operation, with the five 787s of that order intended as 787-10s.

• Researched on 13 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• How the two seniority lists will merge and whether the requirements converge: the joint pilot contract, which comes before the lists are integrated, had not been ratified at 13 October 2026
• Which aircraft a new First Officer on each list is trained on; the material we found does not tie the Hawaiian list’s Seattle domicile to a type
• The interview stages for direct-entry First Officers, which Alaska does not describe in detail on its careers pages
• Which Pathways threshold applies today: Alaska’s Pathways page gives 1,000 h as pilot in command at Horizon, its Ascend Pathways page 1,000 h of E175 PIC with 2,000 h in total at Horizon
• Whether the Horizon Air Pilot Development Program is taking students in 2026, and when the Ascend Pilot Academy’s 2026 cadets start (Alaska’s job site showed Ascend recruiting with an application deadline of 7 April 2026)

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 14 October 2026 from search-engine results, not opened (the sandbox cannot reach jobs.aa.com): American’s Pilot job family on jobs.aa.com and the Cadet Academy page (academy.aa.com) were live in search results; a job board relaying American’s First Officer posting (pilotsglobal.com, listing closed) gives a current unrestricted FAA ATP (multi-engine), 1,500 h total, an FCC Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit, a First Class medical, fluent English, US work authorization, a valid passport and FAA criminal background checks. Envoy’s own Flow to American page says Envoy pilots move to American with no additional interview, and American’s Cadet Academy page says American has contractual flow-through agreements with each of its regional carriers. AOPA (28 January 2026) reported that American planned to hire about 1,500 pilots in 2026; candidates on aviationinterviews.com reported interview sessions at Dallas–Fort Worth in August and September 2026. American publishes no selection stages: the stages in this record come from candidate reports and preparation sites (2025–2026). Reviewed the same day, also from search results: no separate American pathway for military pilots was found (American’s Military careers page, jobs.aa.com/go/Military/8179900/, as indexed, says only that positions are posted as they become available and describes no pilot route), so the “Military pathway” entry route was removed.

• Researched on 14 October 2026 from search-engine results of American’s own careers pages, a job board relaying its First Officer posting, Envoy’s flow page, pilot forums and preparation sites — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• American’s own description of its selection: it publishes no stages; the stages listed come from candidate reports and preparation sites (2025–2026)
• Whether a simulator evaluation is part of the selection: several 2026 preparation sites list one, but candidate accounts of the interview day posted in August and September 2026 mention none
• The content of the online assessment and how its result is used: preparation sites describe Aon (cut-e) style tasks, one of them about nine subtests; American publishes none of this
• A separate pathway or lower hours minimum for military pilots: none found in American’s own material; the 1,000 h figure this record carried before 14 October 2026 is not in it either (the FAA restricted ATP for military pilots is 750 h, 14 CFR 61.160)
• Current class sizes and the wait from application to interview

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Domicile assignment for new hires

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 13 October 2026 from search-engine results of Delta’s own pilot pages (delta.com → Careers → Pilots: Overview, and the Pilot Careers Process & FAQs page, delta.com/us/en/careers/pilots/hiring-faqs); the portal itself could not be read from our research environment. As indexed, the FAQ gives the requirements (1,500 h total, 250 h PIC or SIC and 50 h multi-engine, with 1,000 h fixed-wing turbine now listed as preferred rather than required) and a process in eight steps: the application; a review by two members of the Application Review Team; the interview stage (the Aon online assessment, then a panel interview and the MMPI-2 at Delta headquarters, then a virtual interview with a Delta psychologist), which ends in a conditional job offer; pre-employment screenings; a two-week indoctrination; the wing ceremony; training (the FAA-approved initial qualification under Delta’s Advanced Qualification Program); and “Take Flight”. Delta takes continuous applications rather than dated postings. Industry figures for Delta’s 2026 pilot hiring differ (about 600 in the first quarter in the conference figures ATP Flight School cited in January 2026; 2,000 in ATP Flight School’s outlook as reported in July 2026; 2,400 to 2,600 in an industry tracker), and no hiring pause had been reported. Review of 13 October 2026: the step count corrected from six to eight (the wing ceremony is step 6 of 8 on Delta’s page).

• Researched on 13 October 2026 from search-engine results of Delta’s own careers pages (Overview, Pilot Careers Process & FAQs), job boards and pilot-preparation sites — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the requirements and the process on Delta’s careers site before you apply.
• How strictly the turbine figures are applied: Delta’s FAQ, as indexed, lists 1,000 h fixed-wing turbine as preferred and adds that “a minimum of 500 turbine hours must be in a non-powered lift airplane”, while some job boards relaying Delta’s requirements still show 1,000 h as a minimum
• The content of the Aon online assessment: Delta says only that it tests personality and skill-based competencies; candidates on pilot forums in 2023 and 2024 reported between four and eight sections
• The format of the panel interview (a preparation site’s June 2026 summary of candidate reports: about an hour with two Delta pilots and a member of HR, behavioral and “what would you do” questions, no systems questions)
• Whether a simulator evaluation remains in any form: Delta’s published steps name none before training, and 2026 preparation sites disagree
• The 8–14 month application-to-class timeline comes from industry data, not from Delta

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 24 October 2026, in downloads made through the GitHub runner (tools/careers/src/regionals-2026-10-24/): Endeavor’s pilot careers page (Endeavor and Delta joined under the Propel Career Path brand; Apply Now; hub operations in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York and Raleigh-Durham; 150 regional jets on 750 daily flights to 122 destinations); its pilot FAQ, on endeavorair.com and in an identical copy on its iCIMS host (interviews within six months of the ATP minimum hours, earlier applications kept on file; the Propel application always open, students within 12 months of their ATP minimums, the minimums by background; selection by application review, required testing and an in-person interview at the Minneapolis headquarters with a joint Endeavor and Delta pilot selection team, with a logbook, work history and background review; company-paid ATP-CTP with its ATP training partner for well-qualified candidates; upgrades projected at less than 36 months; pilot seniority by base for ATL, CVG, DTW, MSP, NYC and RDU, the latest date 3 March 2025; the STEP program discontinued); its Career Advancement Program page (iCIMS host: 24 months as an Endeavor Captain, no testing or interview, the other criteria); its Experienced First Officer page; its About and Our Fleet pages (CRJ-900 and CRJ-700); its May 2023 fact sheet; Delta’s Propel page (the Collegiate & CFI, Company and Scholarship paths; criteria including a First Class medical, a passport and the right to work in the US without sponsorship); an undated AirlineApps notice for Direct Entry Captains; ATP Flight School’s Endeavor career track page; and AirlineGeeks (3 February 2025). Not readable: AviationCV’s copy of the CRJ First Officer listing (a bot check), so the listing’s figures (1,500 h, 250 h PIC, 25 h multi-engine, no type rating, First Class medical, high school diploma or GED) are as search results showed PilotsGlobal’s and AviationCV’s copies on 24 October 2026; CAPA’s brief of 28 July 2026 on two suspended Endeavor services (paywalled). No Direct Entry Captain page of Endeavor’s own and no Captain posting was downloaded. None of the pages carries a date.

• Read directly on 24 October 2026: Endeavor’s pilot careers, FAQ, Career Advancement Program, Experienced First Officer, About and Our Fleet pages, and Delta’s Propel page. The CRJ First Officer listing’s figures (1,500 h, 250 h PIC, 25 h multi-engine, no type rating, high school diploma or GED) are from search-engine results of job-board copies, not read on Endeavor’s pages. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Which hour minimum Endeavor applies now: the current job-board copy gives 1,500 h with 250 h PIC, an earlier closed listing 750 h, and Endeavor itself names only the ATP minimums (and, for Propel’s university flight instructors, the restricted-ATP ones)
• Whether Endeavor is running First Officer new-hire classes now: its pages invite applications but are undated, and the latest date in its FAQ’s pilot seniority list by base is 3 March 2025
• Whether the Direct Entry Captain route is open: the notice we read (AirlineApps) is undated, Endeavor’s pilot careers page does not mention the route, and we found no Captain posting
• Direct Entry Captain minimums: a job-board copy of a Captain listing names 975 h of air carrier experience as 14 CFR 121.436 defines it, short of the rule’s 1,000 h for a Part 121 Captain
• Whether the Experienced First Officer bonuses are current: the page is undated

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

First read on 19 October 2026 and read again on 20 October 2026 (fact-check). Directly, on Envoy’s server: the “Company Portfolio for Prospective Pilots” of June 2026 (envoyair.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Envoy-Pilot-Portfolio-6.10.2026.pdf): domiciles, fleet, flow to American, pay scales effective 10 June 2026 to 10 June 2027, the 50% premium until 31 December 2026, new-hire training schedule. The live pages envoyair.com/careers/pilots/, /pilot-minimum-qualifications/, /cadet-program/ and /our-company/ answered HTTP 403 to the GitHub runner, so they were read in the Internet Archive’s copies: Pilots (latest capture 15 June 2026), Envoy Pilot Minimum Qualifications (latest capture 11 June 2026), Cadet Program, Our Company (captures to 1 October 2026), Our Fleet, Pilot Bases & Commuting Policy, Pilot Interview Tips (a copy dated © 2024: the archive’s index has no capture of that page since 2025), the Experienced Part-121 Pilots landing page (capture of 15 March 2026) and Envoy’s release of 6 May 2026 on a crew base at Washington National (DCA). Envoy’s Direct Entry Captain page (envoyair.com/?p=53623) was seen only in search results; its October 2026 menu lists “Direct Entry Captains” and “Experienced First Officers”. The previous check, on 21 September 2026, was from search results only and listed New York LaGuardia as a base, which no Envoy source of 2026 names. On 20 October 2026, through the GitHub runner again: the portfolio downloaded directly, unchanged; envoyair.com/careers/pilots/, /pilot-minimum-qualifications/, /pilots/ and the Direct Entry Captain page (?p=53623) answered HTTP 403 again; the archived Pilots, Minimum Qualifications, Cadet Program, Our Company, Our Fleet, Bases & Commuting, Interview Tips and Experienced Part-121 pages and the DCA release read again, unchanged in substance; the archive’s index gave latest captures of 15 June 2026 (Pilots), 11 June 2026 (Minimum Qualifications) and 1 October 2026 (Our Company).

• Read on 20 October 2026 from Envoy’s own pilot portfolio (June 2026, opened directly) and the Internet Archive’s copies of Envoy’s pilot pages (the latest of June 2026); Envoy’s live careers pages refused the download, so its current vacancy list was not read. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the 50% Pilot Supply premium and Captain pay at 750 hours are extended beyond 31 December 2026
• Whether the hourly rates in Envoy’s pay scale include the 50% premium or have it added on top: the portfolio does not say
• The minimums, pay and current status of Envoy’s Direct Entry Captain route: Envoy publishes a page for it, but we could not open it
• The start date of the Washington National (DCA) crew base
• The current wait from flow eligibility to a class at American: Envoy’s portfolio shows about five years from hire and says times may vary

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read on the pages themselves on 16 October 2026: flyfrontier.com/careers/pilot (the status line “Our First Officer and University applications are open”; the hours and what counts as flight time; the other requirements, including an age of at least 20 and a high school diploma or GED; the 13 bases; the note and link for Spirit Airlines professionals; the advertised “fast upgrade (2-3 years)”), the University Pathway, F9 Pilot Cadet and Rotor Transition Program pages (each says its application window is temporarily closed; the Cadet page lists the USD 500 and USD 1,000 monthly stipends and more than 70 ATP Flight School locations; the Rotor page is for US military-trained aviators only) and AirlineApps’ Frontier First Officer listing (the same minimums; a US passport, or a foreign passport with authorization to work in the US; red-eyes; no posting date). Read in search-engine results on 16 October 2026: the parts of the program pages not read directly (University Pathway hours and passport, Rotor Transition hours and partner schools, Cadet medical and age); PilotsGlobal’s copy of the posting (type rating provided, no visa sponsorship); ALPA’s Frontier pilot-group page (hires in 2025, seniority list, negotiations); the second-quarter 2026 results (fleet at 30 June 2026; the investor release itself could not be downloaded) and the Form 8-K of March 2026 (early lease returns, delivery deferrals); Reuters, June 2026, on Spirit employees. The previous check, on 21 September 2026, described the First Officer and University applications as open.

• Read directly on 16 October 2026: Frontier’s pilot careers page, its University Pathway, F9 Pilot Cadet and Rotor Transition pages and the AirlineApps listing. Researched on 16 October 2026 from search-engine results: parts of the program requirements, the fleet figures and ALPA’s figures. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• The dates of the First Officer posting: neither Frontier’s pilot page nor the AirlineApps listing gives a posting or closing date
• Whether the University Pathway is taking applications: on 16 October 2026 Frontier’s pilot careers page said “University applications are open”, while the program’s own page said its application window was temporarily closed
• Frontier’s interview and assessment stages: Frontier does not publish them; preparation sites describe an interview day at its Denver headquarters with a simulator session
• Pay and upgrade times: pay is set by the ALPA contract, amendable since January 2024 and still under negotiation in early 2026; Frontier’s pilot page advertises “a fast upgrade (2-3 years)” and “over 200 new aircraft on order”, undated, while under its 2026 agreements Frontier returned 24 A320neos early and deferred 69 deliveries to 2031–2033 (Form 8-K, March 2026)
• Which of the 13 bases take new-hire pilots after the 2026 fleet reductions

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 25 October 2026. Downloaded on 25 October 2026 and read directly: Horizon’s compensation page (careers.alaskaair.com/career-opportunities/pilots/horizon-compensation): First Officers USD 92.72 an hour in the first year and Captains USD 153.68, a year-for-year pay match for candidates with prior Part 121 time, and an in-house ATP-CTP course in First Officer training with all expenses covered; Horizon’s Pilot Development Program page (careers.alaskaair.com/career-opportunities/pilots/pdp/): a USD 12,500 stipend (USD 2,500 after the instrument rating and six months in the program, USD 10,000 with the conditional job offer), a line pilot mentor, enrollment with at least a private pilot license, a First Class medical and a valid US passport, evaluation for a conditional job offer after the Commercial single-engine certificate and a year in the program, and hiring as a First Officer at the ATP minimum flight hours, with an active FCC radio permit and an age of 21; Alaska’s Pilot Pathways page (careers.alaskaair.com/career-opportunities/pilots/pathways/): the Pathways List in Horizon seniority order, eligibility for an Alaska class date after 1,000 h as pilot in command at Horizon, class dates by Horizon seniority, the Horizon and Alaska interviews on the same day for Horizon pilot candidates, applications each quarter for current Horizon pilots, and Alaska’s own background checks with a PRIA review; the True North page (careers.alaskaair.com/career-opportunities/pilots/truenorth/): up to 80% of flight lab fees reimbursed, mentorship and an apprenticeship or direct-hire placement for students at select four-year schools; Alaska’s fleet page (news.alaskaair.com/fleet/, as of July 2026): 49 E175s operated by Horizon and 43 by SkyWest, 76 seats; Hoodline (27 March 2026): the Medford crew base closing in the second quarter of 2026, about 78 pilots and flight attendants to transfer (citing The Oregonian), the Medford flights continuing. Alaska Air Group’s pilot jobs page (careers.alaskaair.com/career-opportunities/pilot-jobs/), downloaded by a GitHub runner on 24 October 2026: Alaska, Hawaiian and Horizon “have open pilot jobs for everyone”; the Pilot Development Program’s guaranteed interview with Horizon; “Pilot Pathways: Horizon to Alaska and Hawaiian”. Not read directly: Horizon’s pilot page itself (careers.alaskaair.com/career-opportunities/pilots/horizon-air/), whose download did not survive, and the Experienced First Officer postings (Las Vegas, Boise) and the posting lists, which came back empty; Women in Aviation International’s 2026 Alaska, Hawaiian and Horizon briefing, which is members-only. From search-engine results of 25 October 2026, not read on the pages: Horizon’s pilot page said Horizon was currently hiring Experienced First Officers and gave 1,500 h total or R-ATP qualified, 100 h night, 75 h instrument, an age of 21, the Commercial with multi-engine and instrument ratings, a First Class medical and crew bases SEA, PAE, GEG, PDX, MFR, BOI and ANC; the Experienced First Officer postings on careers.alaskaair.com, on Alaska’s iCIMS pilot portal (jobs 18545 and 14210) and in job-board copies asked for 1,465 h total or R-ATP qualified, 500 h cross-country (200 h if R-ATP or military qualified), 100 h night, 75 h instrument, the same certificate and medical and 200 h of FAA-approved prior qualifying time under 14 CFR 121.436(a)(3), such as 200 h as second in command at a Part 121 carrier, verified in the logbooks with the System Chief Pilot or the Director of Operations at the interview, named no type rating, and preferred 100 h multi-engine, 100 h in the last 12 months and a four-year degree; they also gave a 75-credit-hour monthly guarantee on the jet and 73 on reserve and tied the longevity match to a permanent bid that puts every Captain position first; a Portland copy gave an apply-by date of 1 October 2026; a KOBI5 report of March 2026 and a Las Vegas posting gave a new Las Vegas crew base. Other pay and bonus figures in search results (USD 91.35 and 151.41 in some copies, experienced-hire bonus tiers that differ between copies) are not on the downloaded compensation page and are not used. On 29 September 2026 search results had shown Experienced First Officer postings for the same bases with a passport and FCC permit requirement.

• Researched on 25 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards, and from downloads of Horizon’s compensation, Pilot Development Program, Pathways and True North pages; Horizon’s pilot page and its postings could not be downloaded. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether an Experienced First Officer posting is open today: the copies we could date are from 2026, one with an apply-by date of 1 October 2026, and we could not open the postings
• The total-time minimum and the prior qualifying time: in search results, Horizon’s Experienced First Officer postings gave 1,465 h and its pilot page 1,500 h, each with the restricted ATP as the alternative, and the postings asked for 200 h of prior qualifying time, with options beyond second in command at a Part 121 carrier that we could not read in full
• Whether a type rating is ever asked for: no Horizon page we could download names one, and the posting copies in search results asked for none
• The monthly pay guarantees, the conditions of the year-for-year pay match and the experienced-hire bonus: the compensation page gives none of them; posting copies in search results gave 75 credit hours on the jet and 73 on reserve and tied the match to a permanent bid that puts every Captain position first, and bonus amounts differ between copies
• Whether the Pilot Development Program carries a service commitment: Horizon’s program page names none, while a partner school’s page, in search results, describes one of at least two years after the ATP minimums

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 24 October 2026 by the reviewer from pages a GitHub runner downloaded that day (tools/careers/src/regionals-2026-10-24/): Jazz’s pilot recruitment page (flyjazz.com/en/pilot-recruitment/; flyjazz.ca/en/careers/pilots/pilot-recruitment/ and flyjazz.ca/?p=4949 returned the same page) and CareerBeacon’s copy of Jazz’s “Pilot (First Officer)” posting (competition number TBD-PILOT-5800-26, marked “Posted today”). Jazz’s page sets its general applicant hiring qualifications at a minimum of 500 hours of total flight time, a Commercial Pilot Licence, a valid and current Transport Canada Group 1 instrument rating meeting the instrument recency requirements, a valid Class 1 medical, the legal right to work in Canada as a citizen or permanent resident and the legal ability to enter the United States, invites pilots to build a profile in its recruitment system at any time, and lists seven hiring steps from a phone pre-screen to a verbal and written offer. Its Jazz Direct route reviews graduates of 13 Jazz-affiliated college, university and flight school programs, which it lists, at its requirements plus 250 hours, sooner from an integrated ATPL program; its Jazz Approach program, with CAE and Cygnet Aviation Academy, gives selected cadets a conditional letter of employment, 18 months of integrated ATPL training at Cygnet and CAE’s advanced jet transition training in Toronto. The posting adds a multi-engine rating, the IATRA passed within the preceding 24 months or the ATPL written examination, a high school diploma, the Transport Canada English proficiency standard, a Restricted Area Identity Card and a current passport at the time of hire, and says new hires are assigned to one of four bases (Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver) as operations require, learning which on the second day of ground school. Neither lists a type rating. Captain listings were found only as job boards’ copies in search results: AviationCV’s of a Dash 8-400 Direct Entry Captain posting, undated (the download returned a bot check), and PilotsGlobal’s, one marked closed; Jazz’s own page describes First Officer routes only. The writer’s check earlier the same day, and those of 21 October and 29 September 2026, were from search-engine results.

• Read on 24 October 2026 from Jazz’s own pilot recruitment page and a job board’s copy of its First Officer posting, both downloaded that day; the Captain listings, the CRJ200 retirement and the flow dispute rest on search-engine results only. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether Jazz is recruiting Captains: Jazz’s pilot recruitment page describes First Officer routes only, and the Captain listings found on 24 October 2026 were job boards’ copies, undated or marked closed
• Jazz Approach entry requirements and cost, and whether it is taking cadets now: Jazz’s page refers applicants to CAE (cae.com/flyjazz), which we did not read
• Who pays for the type rating and initial training, and whether it is bonded
• How the flow to Air Canada works today: Jazz calls itself Air Canada’s preferential source of pilots and its posting speaks of a preferential interview process, while ALPA’s complaint of August 2023 that the flow agreements were not being honored, as search results showed it, has no outcome we could find
• The term of Jazz’s capacity purchase agreement with Air Canada: search results gave 2035, but no source we could read ties that date to the agreement rather than to the pilots’ collective agreement

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on JetBlue’s own pages on 14 October 2026. The First Officer posting on careers.jetblue.com (Orlando, FL 32827, job page 1437544500) was open, with Apply buttons and no posting or closing date. It asks for a high school diploma or GED; a valid, unrestricted FAA ATP with airplane category and multi-engine class ratings; 1,500 h total time with at least 500 h in fixed-wing airplanes; a current FAA First Class medical; an FCC radiotelephone operator’s permit; a US passport, or a US permanent resident card with a foreign passport and the visas needed to enter and leave all JetBlue destinations without restriction, with at least six months’ validity at application and valid throughout training and employment; three reference letters from pilots who can attest to the candidate’s flying; complete and continuous fluency in written and spoken English; a valid US driver’s license with a driving record that meets JetBlue’s insurance standards; a ten-year background check and pre-employment drug test; and US work authorization, with no visa sponsorship. Preferred: a bachelor’s degree, letters of recommendation from current JetBlue pilots, 3,500 h or more total time in aircraft (turbine helicopter time included, simulator and flight engineer time excluded), more than 1,000 h fixed-wing turbine PIC, more than 1,000 h in aircraft with EFIS or FMS, and more than 200 h in the last 12 months. The posting says that using ChatGPT or any other automated tool during the interview process disqualifies a candidate. JetBlue’s First Officer page (careers.jetblue.com/go/First-Officer/8044500/) lists roles at BOS, FLL, JFK, LAX and MCO. JetBlue’s Gateways site (jetbluegateways.com: the Select, University, RTP, Flex and Family pages and the FAQs), read the same day: SkyWarrior Flight Training in Pensacola is the Gateway Select and RTP training partner; applications are taken during a designated period, without dates; Gateway Select asks for a First Class medical certificate and a US passport (or permanent resident card) at application and an age of 23 by the end of the program, charges no application fee and USD 116 for the assessment, and gives SkyWarrior’s tuition as about USD 120,000 without housing; new-hire pilots bid for their aircraft in new-hire training. Fleet from JetBlue’s second-quarter 2026 investor update (read the same day) and its Form 10-Q for the quarter to 30 June 2026 (search results); the San Juan base from JetBlue’s release of May 2024 and an EFE report of December 2024 (search results). Review of 14 October 2026: status set to Recruiting from the open posting itself; the ATP must be unrestricted; Newark, listed on ALPA’s JetBlue page, is not among the bases on JetBlue’s First Officer page, and neither is San Juan.

• The ‘Recruiting’ status rests on a First Officer posting that was open to applications on 14 October 2026 but shows no posting or closing date. Check the careers site before you apply.
• JetBlue’s interview stages for direct-entry First Officers: the posting mentions an interview process but does not describe it
• When the next Gateway application periods open: JetBlue’s Gateways site says applications are taken during a designated period without giving dates
• Whether San Juan is still a pilot base: JetBlue opened a pilot and inflight crew base there in December 2024, but its First Officer page lists roles only at Boston, Fort Lauderdale, New York JFK, Los Angeles and Orlando
• The experience of recent hires: pilot job sites and preparation providers report figures well above the 1,500 h minimum, which JetBlue does not publish

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 24 October 2026 by the reviewer from Piedmont’s own pages, downloaded that day by a GitHub runner (tools/careers/src/regionals-2026-10-24/): its pilot careers page (piedmont-airlines.com/pilots/), its First Officer Jobs page (piedmont-airlines.com/?p=1861, with a First Officer wage scale dated 29 June 2026: $102.00 an hour in year 1, $109.50 in year 2 and $120.75 from year 3; the pilot page adds a guarantee of 75 hours a month and Captain rates from $161.25 an hour, and the FAQ a top-of-scale Captain rate of $213.75 until the flow), its paths-to-the-flight-deck FAQ, and its news of 8 September 2023 (bonuses) and 10 June 2025 (the E175). The First Officer page’s minimum qualifications: meet the minimum requirements to hold an ATP or restricted ATP with a multi-engine rating; 1,500 hours of flight time, 50 of them multi-engine and 250 as pilot in command, or meet the requirements for the restricted ATP; a valid US passport, or a valid passport with authorization to work in the US; an FCC Radiotelephone Operator Permit; a current First Class medical; a high school diploma or GED; current employment in a pilot position preferred; recruiters at flyPiedmont@aa.com. The pilot page lists First Officer, High Time First Officer and Cadet Program openings and no Direct Entry Captain section, names the crew bases Charlotte, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, puts training at the American Airlines Training Center under Piedmont’s Advanced Qualification Program, and describes a contractual flow to American Airlines at five years or top-of-scale pay; First Officers bid for Captain after 2,500 hours total and 1,000 Part 121 hours. The FAQ says Piedmont does not currently sponsor work visas and that candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents with unrestricted travel in and out of the US; that the upgrade takes about 18 months and the flow an estimated five years; that cadets apply at 400 hours with a commercial multi-engine certificate and instrument rating, are admitted at 500 hours, build their time anywhere at a minimum of 60 hours a month, and have the ATP-CTP course and the FAA ATP written paid at the ATP minimums before a guaranteed First Officer class with no additional interview; and that there are no bonus incentives for High Time First Officers at this time. The Direct Entry Captain postings found in search results were job boards’ copies with 2023 and 2024 pay scales, one marked closed; the dejobs copy came back empty and the AviationCV copies as bot checks. The writer’s check earlier the same day, and the previous one on 29 September 2026, were from search-engine results.

• Read on 24 October 2026 from Piedmont’s own pilot pages and FAQ, downloaded that day; the Direct Entry Captain postings and the American Airlines Cadet Academy terms rest on search-engine results only. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether Piedmont is recruiting Direct Entry Captains: its pilot page listed no Direct Entry Captain opening on 24 October 2026, and the Captain postings found were job boards’ copies with 2023 and 2024 pay scales, one marked closed, whose minimums differ (2,450 h with 950 h of upgrade-qualifying time in one, 2,000 h with 500–949 h or 2,500 h with 1,000 h in others)
• Whether a Direct Entry Captain bonus is offered now: Piedmont’s FAQ says there are no bonus incentives for High Time First Officers at this time, and the Captain bonuses in its news of 8 September 2023 were for pilots who applied by 31 December 2023
• Whether Piedmont pays for the ATP-CTP course and the ATP written for direct-entry First Officers: its pages say so only for cadets
• The terms of the flow agreement itself: Piedmont’s pages give an estimated five years and top-of-scale pay until the flow
• The length of new-hire training and any training bond

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 23 October 2026. Read directly that day, in downloads made through the GitHub runner (tools/careers/src/saa-porter-2026-10-23/): Porter’s careers portal still served “First Officer - Embraer E195-E2 (Toronto) YYZ” (job 5312) and “Direct Entry Captain - Embraer E195-E2 (Toronto) YYZ” (job 5297), both “in Mississauga, Canada”, but only their titles could be read, the posting text being loaded by script; AviationCV’s copies answered with a bot check; CAE’s page for the Destination Porter: Cadet Program; and the February 2024 base reports (AirlineGeeks, 15 February 2024; ch-aviation, 19 February 2024). Read in search-engine results only: flyporter.com’s pilot careers and Destination Porter pages, the Dash 8 postings, the job boards’ copies of the postings (PilotsGlobal, Pilot Career Center, Workopolis, AviationCV) and Porter’s and Embraer’s releases. Porter’s Destination Porter page (its French version), as search results showed it on 23 October 2026: the 2025 cohort is closed and the next is planned for 2026; from 500 flight hours a pilot on the pathway can interview for a First Officer role, and after the interview and a simulator evaluation receives a conditional offer, confirmed on passing the IATRA/ATPL exams and reaching 1,000 total hours. Porter’s careers portal, as search results showed it on 21 October 2026, also carried “First Officer Dash 8” (Toronto, job 4844) and “Direct Entry Captain - Dash 8” (Toronto, job 4969), without dates; on 23 October job boards (AviationCV) carried copies titled “First Officer - Embraer E2 YYZ”, “First Officer Dash 8” and “Direct Entry Captain Dash 8”. Porter’s pilot careers page, as indexed on 21 October, states a minimum hiring requirement of 1,000 total hours and invites commercial pilots with 200 to 1,000 hours to apply and establish an early connection. Job boards’ copies of the postings: Pilot Career Center gives 1,000 h with an ATPL or the IATRA for the Dash 8-400 First Officer, 1,500 h with an ATPL for the E195-E2 First Officer and 4,500 h for the E195-E2 Direct Entry Captain; PilotsGlobal gives, for a Dash 8 Captain, 2,500 h total with 500 h in command on type (or 1,500 h in command of a turboprop over 44,000 lb) and the type rating, and another copy 3,000 h; PilotsGlobal’s copies of the E-Jet and Dash 8 First Officer listings give a TCCA Class 1 medical and ICAO English Level 4 and mark visa sponsorship as not offered, the E-Jet copy accepting an ATPL or the SAMRA and SARON exams and saying no type rating is required and training is provided; one PilotsGlobal copy of a Dash 8 First Officer listing gives 500 h total; the copies say pilots below the minimums may be considered on experience. Pilot Career Center’s profile of Porter asks for a Transport Canada license and medical and the legal right to work in Canada. No source we could download says whether Porter sponsors a work permit, so that stays among the points we could not confirm. CAE’s page, read directly: the Destination Porter: Cadet Program, run by Cygnet Aviation Academy, CAE and Porter for people with little or no flying experience and the unrestricted right to live and work in Canada (citizens or permanent residents), takes about 22 months, integrated ATPL training for 20 months in Kingston, Ontario, then Dash 8-400 type training at CAE Toronto; successful cadets receive a conditional letter of employment with Porter before the course and join Porter as Dash 8-400 First Officers on completion, subject to certain conditions, with no minimum time to work at Porter; applicants need a post-secondary degree or diploma, an age of at least 18, a Transport Canada Category 1 medical and ICAO English Level 4, and pass an online personality and aptitude assessment and an interview with Porter; applications are rolling, for three classes a year starting in January, May and August; those working toward or holding a CPL are considered overqualified and directed to Porter’s own hiring. Fleet, from Porter’s and Embraer’s releases in search results: 77 aircraft in October 2025, 48 E195-E2s and 29 Dash 8-400s (Porter, 23 October 2025); the 50th E195-E2 delivered in December 2025, of 75 on firm order with purchase rights for 25 more (Porter and Embraer, 23 December 2025). Bases, read directly: in February 2024 Porter had an E195-E2 crew base at Toronto Pearson and Dash 8-400 crew bases at Toronto Billy Bishop, Ottawa, Halifax and Thunder Bay, and announced E195-E2 crew bases at Ottawa (June 2024), Montréal-Trudeau (July 2024) and Vancouver (October 2024); no later base announcement was found. The previous check, on 21 October 2026, was from search-engine results.

• Researched on 23 October 2026 from search-engine results of Porter’s own careers pages and job boards’ copies of its postings — not from a direct read of the portal; the two Porter postings downloaded that day (First Officer and Direct Entry Captain, E195-E2, Toronto) gave only their titles, their text being loaded by script. Read directly: CAE’s Destination Porter Cadet Program page and the February 2024 base reports. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• The postings’ dates, and their license, instrument-rating, medical and right-to-work wording as Porter words them: those lines come from job boards’ copies
• Type rating and bond terms as Porter publishes them
• Whether Porter sponsors a work permit for any pilot role: PilotsGlobal’s copies of its First Officer listings, seen only in search results, mark visa sponsorship as not offered
• Whether a Dash 8-400 First Officer can be hired below 1,000 h: one job board’s copy of a Dash 8 First Officer listing gives 500 h, and the copies say pilots below the minimums may be considered on experience
• The Dash 8-400 Direct Entry Captain minimum: job boards’ copies give 2,500 h with 500 h in command on type, or 3,000 h

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 24 October 2026 in search-engine results; the sandbox could not reach psaairlines.com or any job board (proxy refusal), and this writer could not dispatch deploy.yml’s fetch_url job. Read in results: PSA’s pilot careers page (psaairlines.com/pilots/: the necessary flight hours, an FAA First Class medical and the ATP or restricted ATP qualifications; a guaranteed direct flow to American; Captain pay from USD 161.25 and First Officer pay from USD 102 an hour with a 75-hour monthly guarantee); the newsroom article on First Officer pay (2026 rates, USD 102 rising to 120.75 an hour from year 4); the Experienced First Officer page (Captain pay at 750 hours; older rates of USD 96 and 153.75); the Direct Entry Captain page (undated; bonuses up to USD 175,000, Captain wages of USD 150 to 217.50 an hour); the About and Who We Are pages (five crew bases); the newsroom’s cadet program launch article (13 partner colleges, universities and flight schools) and its 2021 retention bonus release; job-board copies of PSA’s CRJ First Officer, non-rated First Officer, Experienced First Officer and Pilot Cadet postings (PilotsGlobal, Flight Deck Friend, AviationCV, Fun Places to Fly; PSA’s iCIMS portal); Ohio State University’s PSA partner page; and InsideFlyer and Destination.com (2026; InsideFlyer’s article dated August 2026 in the results, not checked) on the ATP-CTP. None of PSA’s pages carries a date. On 29 September 2026 search results had shown the same First Officer pages. Not read directly on the portal. Reviewed the same day against the GitHub runner’s downloads of PSA’s iCIMS portal (job 3246, the cadet posting, and the job search; tools/careers/src/regionals-2026-10-24/): both returned only the portal’s menu, whose Pilots section lists Direct Entry Captain, Experienced First Officer, First Officer, Cadet and Pilot Training Careers pages, with no job text and no date. psaairlines.com, the job boards, Ohio State’s page and the InsideFlyer and Destination.com articles were not downloaded, so nothing above was read directly. A fetch from GitHub’s servers on 24 October 2026 was refused by psaairlines.com (HTTP 403 on every page), so no PSA page is on disk; a search the same day still showed CRJ First Officer listings on PilotsGlobal and AirlineApps and PSA’s First Officer pay page with its 2026 terms, so the First Officer status stays “hiring”, as read in search results.

• Researched on 24 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether PSA is running First Officer new-hire classes now: we found no dated posting, and an undated pilot-forum post reported First Officer classes suspended
• Who pays the cadets’ ATP-CTP: PSA’s pages say PSA does, at the minimums; InsideFlyer reported that PSA told its cadets in late July 2026 that they must now pay it, and Destination.com reported the same change
• The cadet posting’s hour limits (700 h for the R-ATP; 1,000 or 1,200 h, depending on the copy, for the ATP): whether they cap total time or the hours still to go
• Whether the Pilot Retention Bonus Program of up to $150,000, announced in August 2021, still runs; we found no current sign-on bonus
• Whether the Direct Entry Captain route is open: the page is undated, its Captain wage range starts below the $161.25 of PSA’s careers page, and the bonus terms we found were time-limited offers of 2024

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 19 and 20 October 2026. careers.rjet.com refused a GitHub runner (HTTP 403), so on 19 October the postings were read only in search-engine results and job-board copies; on 20 October the reviewer read both pilot postings directly on Republic’s own Workday job site (rjet.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com) through the runner, and its sitemap, whose only pilot postings were JR-005024 and JR-004825. JR-005024 (Commercial Airline Pilot – First Officer, Carmel, Indiana, full time, posted 21 September 2026): the minimum requirements for an ATP or RATP certificate, the ATP written preferred, the current interview and hiring minimum age and flight hours requirements set by the FAA and the company (a candidate with the interview minimums may be hired on reaching the hiring minimums within six months of the interview, with no certificate action since, a stable employment history and a class date accepted within six months), a high school diploma or GED, the FAA-required 10-year work history review with criminal background and fingerprint checks, a valid US or foreign passport, authorization to work in the US, and FAA and company drug and alcohol tests. JR-004825 (RJet Cadet, posted 7 October 2026): the hour bands, the First Class medical with lapsed privileges accepted, no commitment or contractual obligation, and the HR and technical interview. Read directly through the runner on 19 October: Republic’s undated Pilot Career Path page (LIFT Academy, the Delta Ready, United Ready and Cape Air JumpStart pathways, direct-entry Captains) and its Q2 2026 results release of 30 July 2026 (fleet, orders, the Mesa merger). Job-board copies of the First Officer posting give only the FAA’s figures (1,500 h total and 250 h PIC, the ATP minimums of 14 CFR 61.159, or 750 h with the R-ATP) and say no type rating is required and no visa is sponsored. An undated Direct Entry Captain listing (Indianapolis) on rjetcareers.dejobs.org, a job-feed copy of Republic’s listings, was not on Republic’s job site on 20 October. The previous check, on 21 September 2026, was from search results; its flat 1,500 h came from job boards.

• Republic’s own interview and hiring minimums of age and hours, which the First Officer posting says apply beside the FAA’s but does not state; the job-board copies of the posting we found give only the FAA’s ATP or R-ATP figures
• Whether Republic hires military pilots at the R-ATP’s 750 h
• The current crew-base list, the bases open to new hires and current class sizes
• Whether direct-entry First Officers have the same interview as the RJet Cadet posting describes, and whether there is a simulator or aptitude stage, which third-party guides list and Republic’s pages do not
• First Officer pay: Republic’s own pages, as search results show them, have given USD 91.81, 92.73 and 93.65 an hour in different versions
• Whether the Delta Ready, United Ready and Cape Air JumpStart pathways still run on the terms of the undated Pilot Career Path page, and when Republic next posts a direct-entry Captain vacancy

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 15 October 2026 through the GitHub-runner fetch: SkyWest’s job board (jobs.skywest.com, through its jobs API), which listed job 16703, “First Officer Pilot”, posted 1 July 2026, updated 6 October 2026 and listed until 1 January 2027, for 21 domiciles, beside job 16389, “Pilot Pathway Program”, and no Direct Entry Captain posting; and, through a page-rendering reader because skywest.com refuses scripted requests, SkyWest’s career guides “Pilot Jobs” (hour table, United Aviate, Guaranteed Pilot Interview Program, pay, year-for-year credit), “Pilot Pathway Program” and “Rotor Transition Program” and its fact sheet (21 crew domiciles; 517 aircraft in scheduled service at 30 June 2026). The Direct Entry Captain page did not open (403); its terms are from a 2024 copy in the Internet Archive. Seen only in search results: SkyWest, Inc.’s Form 10-Q and first-quarter 2026 results (E175 order, CRJ450) and a SkyWest hiring sheet of January 2024 (Direct Entry Captain minimums). The previous check, on 21 September 2026, found posting 16071.

• Whether SkyWest is hiring Direct Entry Captains now and on what terms: its Direct Entry Captain page did not open on 15 October 2026 (the bonuses we quote are from a 2024 copy in the Internet Archive), its job board showed no Direct Entry Captain vacancy, and the only minimums we found (2,000 h total and 1,000 h of air-carrier experience under 14 CFR 121.436) come from a SkyWest hiring sheet of January 2024
• What the pilot interview includes: SkyWest’s pilot page has an interview section we could not read, and we found no published description of a simulator or cognitive assessment
• The Pilot Pathway Program’s tuition reimbursement, which SkyWest’s Pathway pages do not mention and partner schools state differently
• When Rotor Transition pilots should apply: the RTP page says within four to six months of the ATP or restricted-ATP minimums, the First Officer posting within three months
• The 67 E175s on order and the CRJ450 conversion, which come from SkyWest, Inc.’s Form 10-Q and first-quarter 2026 results as search results showed them, not read directly

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 13 October 2026 from search-engine results; the portal itself could not be read from our research environment. United’s First Officer page (careers.united.com/us/en/first-officer) and pilot careers page, as indexed, give the direct-entry requirements: an unrestricted FAA ATP with an airplane multi-engine class rating, a First Class medical, an FCC Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit and 1,500 h total, with 1,000 h fixed-wing turbine and 100 h in the last 12 months preferred. The Aviate Program Guide published on 4 August 2026 on unitedaviate.com sets out the route from Aviate partner carriers to a United First Officer seat and the selection for Aviate candidates: screening, the Leadership Inventory and Becoming United online assessments, and an interview in two parts (a behavior-based panel and a technical assessment), held remotely or at United’s Flight Training Center in Denver, to be completed within 180 days of the first invitation; a conditional job offer follows a successful interview. United’s Aviate FAQ (unitedaviate.com/frequently-asked-questions) gives the transition requirement as 1,200 or 1,600 hours as Captain at an Aviate-participating United Express carrier or Part 135 operator, depending on the Aviate entry point, and points to Chapter 5 of the guide. United accepts continuous direct-entry applications. Review of 13 October 2026: the earlier split of the two figures by route (1,600 h United Express, 1,200 h Part 135) is not what United’s FAQ says, and was removed.

• Researched on 13 October 2026 from search-engine results of United’s own careers pages, Aviate FAQ and Aviate Program Guide, job boards and pilot-preparation sites — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether direct-entry interviews are being scheduled at the same pace as Aviate flow-throughs in late 2026
• Whether direct-entry candidates take the same online assessments and two-part interview that the Aviate Program Guide sets out for Aviate candidates, and whether their interview can be remote or is always held in Denver
• Which of the two Aviate figures (1,200 or 1,600 h as Captain) applies to which entry point: United’s Aviate FAQ says only that it depends on the entry point; confirm your own figure in Chapter 5 of the Aviate Program Guide

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 15 October 2026 through the GitHub-runner fetch, with a page-rendering reader for the script-built pages: westjet.com/en-ca/careers/pilot (First Officer minimums of 2,000 h for the mainline and 750 h for WestJet Encore, Encore Direct Entry Captain 2,000 h; mainline bases Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal, Encore base Calgary; fleets 737-700, 737-800, 737-8 MAX, 787-9 and Q400; fleet moves and upgrades by seniority) and WestJet’s two Dayforce job boards. The main board (jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-CA/WestJet/CANDIDATEPORTAL) listed “WestJet - B737 - Pilot - First Officer” (Req# 735, location Canada, posted Wednesday 14 October 2026, no closing date shown): Transport Canada ATPL, 2,000 h total, Group 1 IR, Class 1 medical, Canadian citizenship or permanent residence, no type rating. Both boards listed the WestJet Encore Q400 First Officer posting at Calgary (Req# 540), dated 1 September 2026 on the main board and 5 October 2026 on the pilot board (jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-CA/WestJet/PILOT), expiring on 1 December 2026 on both; its text was read on the board up to the PICUS paragraph, and the PICUS figures in CareerBeacon’s copy of “Encore - Q400 - Pilot - First Officer - 2026 - YYC”. Press read: WestJet newsroom, 3 September 2025 (Boeing order); Airdata News, 28 September 2026 (737-700 sale to FTAI); The Canadian Press (BNN Bloomberg), 25 March 2025, Global News, 17 April 2025, and ALPA, April 2025 (the temporary foreign worker application and its withdrawal). The previous check was on 21 September 2026.

• Whether the mainline posting’s 500 h line is a requirement or a preference: it reads “Minimum 500 hours fixed-wing multi-engine time and multi-crew experience is preferred”
• The mainline posting’s closing date and bases: WestJet’s board shows no closing date and gives the location as Canada
• The Encore posting’s date: WestJet’s two job boards date it 1 September and 5 October 2026; both give 1 December 2026 as its closing date
• The PICUS credit figures, which come from a job board’s copy of the Encore posting; WestJet’s own board cut the text short
• What the pilot interview and any assessment include, which WestJet does not publish
• The terms of the Encore-to-mainline flow, beyond WestJet’s statement that fleet moves and upgrades follow seniority

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 16 October 2026. Read directly (through the GitHub runner): the page of Air Canada’s standing posting “Pilot (for non AC-Express Pilots only)” (careers.aircanada.com job ICA38766, listed at Toronto) said “This job posting is no longer active” and offered the Talent Network; careers.aircanada.com/posts/becoming-an-air-canada-pilot now shows the general careers landing page, with no pilot requirements, seats or bases; the careers FAQ says only candidates selected to move forward are contacted, interview accommodations are requested through the interview invitation, an unsuccessful candidate may reapply to the same position after six months, and the Talent Network takes résumés when no opening fits. From search-engine results only (the portal’s job list was not read): the posting’s text asked for 2,000 h fixed-wing, a Canadian ATPL with a current Group 1 instrument rating, a Category 1 medical to Air Canada’s and Transport Canada’s medical and visual standards, schooling to university entrance level, Canadian citizenship or landed immigrant status, the ability to hold a Restricted Area Identity Card, eligibility to work in Canada and to travel without restriction on the network; it said applications far exceed vacancies, that Air Canada endorses no agency that prepares candidates for its interviews and that interview questions are changed at regular intervals. A separate posting open only to pilots employed by Jazz Aviation (ICA39044) was indexed; its status was not read. An Air Canada careers page (as indexed) and ALPA, the pilots’ union, name four crew bases: Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Chartright announced on 17 March 2026 a Pilot Development Program run in partnership with Air Canada. The portal’s Flight Operations and Pilots job list, read the same day, showed no pilot posting (only the Talent Network), and the page of the Jazz-only posting ICA39044 returned “gone” (HTTP 410).

• Researched on 16 October 2026: the posting’s page and the careers FAQ were read directly, the requirements and the interview warning only from search-engine copies of the posting, now closed. Confirm a vacancy is open before you apply.
• When Air Canada will post pilot vacancies again: on 16 October 2026 its Flight Operations and Pilots job list showed none, the standing posting ICA38766 read “no longer active” and the Jazz-only posting ICA39044 was gone
• Which fleets the vacancies are for
• Whether a simulator evaluation is part of mainline selection: preparation sites describe one, Air Canada publishes none

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 22 October 2026 in search-engine results: job-board copies (Lensa, dated 9 May 2026; Avianation, 31 March 2025; Indeed; Monster) of Atlas’s “First Officer Talent Community” posting say “At this time, we are not currently hiring and do not have a timeline for when we will resume”, invite pilots to submit their information, ask for 1,500 hours total and accept an ATP with a “CIRC APCH - VMC Only” limitation; Avianation relayed a full-time Atlas First Officer posting in Miami in September 2026 (ages 23 to 65, 2,500 hours preferred, 500 hours turbine preferred); older copies were dated February 2026. Atlas’s release of 16 March 2026, read directly through the runner on 22 October 2026, gives its firm order for 20 Airbus A350Fs (options for 20 more; deliveries from 2029 to 2034) and its fleet of 113 Boeing 747s, 777s and 767s. The Atlas Cadet Academy’s site (atlascadetacademy.com), read through the runner on 22 October 2026, offers the academy to Illinois Aviation Academy students at DuPage Airport and says participants are not eligible for employment as an Atlas pilot until they hold an unrestricted ATP after completing training, and that employment is not guaranteed. Read directly on 18 and 22 October 2026 through the GitHub runner (the same text both days): the address of Atlas’s First Officer page (careers.atlasairworldwide.com/fo) returned Atlas’s careers home page, which shows no hiring notice, invites pilots to apply and to join its pilot talent community but shows no dated First Officer posting, names its US crew domiciles “including” Anchorage (ANC), New York (JFK), Chicago (ORD), Los Angeles (LAX), Miami (MIA) and Seattle (SEA), and says its pilots fly global cargo and passenger/VIP charters, on “the world’s largest fleet of widebody freighters”. From search-engine results on 18 October 2026: Atlas’s First Officer page, as the results quote it, asks for a current restricted or unrestricted FAA ATP with an airplane multi-engine class rating and English proficiency endorsement, a minimum age of 21 for an R-ATP or 23 for an ATP, a current FAA First Class medical and a passport valid for 24 months; job postings give 1,500 h total, with 2,500 h in a Part 121, 135, 91 or military environment preferred; and the aviation press reports that Atlas flew its last 767 for Amazon on 6 April 2025 and ended its last narrowbody flying, the 737-800 freighters it flew for Amazon, in May 2025 (STAT Times; Cargo Facts).

• Researched on 22 October 2026 from search-engine results of Atlas’s First Officer page and of its postings as job boards copy them, and from the aviation press. Atlas’s careers home page, its release of 16 March 2026 and the Atlas Cadet Academy’s site were read through the GitHub runner on 22 October 2026, but not the First Officer page: the runner’s copy of its address, on 18 and 22 October, was the careers home page. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a First Officer vacancy is open now: the talent-community posting, in copies dated as late as 9 May 2026, says Atlas is not hiring and has no timeline for resuming, while a job board relayed an Atlas First Officer posting for Miami in September 2026
• Whether a restricted ATP is still accepted: the First Officer page, as search results quote it, takes an R-ATP from age 21, but the September 2026 posting, as a job board relays it, gives ages 23 to 65
• The preferred experience beyond the 2,500 hours: 500 hours of turbine time and more than 200 hours flown in the last 12 months, as job boards and a pilot-recruiting site relay the postings
• Lower minimums for graduates and military pilots: a 2024 Atlas document, hosted by a pilots’ association, lists 1,250, 1,000 or 750 hours, the restricted-ATP minimums of 14 CFR 61.160; not found on Atlas’s own pages
• The selection process: Atlas publishes none; preparation sites and candidates report an HR interview followed by a technical discussion, and one preparation site a simulator check on the 747 or 767

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 23 October 2026 through the GitHub-runner download: FedEx’s pilot careers page (careers.fedex.com/career-areas/pilot/) gives the minimum qualifications (ATP, current First Class medical, radiotelephone operator’s permit, SIDA badge eligibility, pre-employment drug test and PRIA evaluation; 1,500 h total fixed-wing and at least 500 h as pilot in command of jets, multi-engine turboprops of 12,500 lb or more or certain single-engine turboprops, 1,000 h preferred; a bachelor’s degree preferred; a valid US passport) and its pilot FAQ: pilots create or update a profile, and a profile selected from the pool receives an e-mail with a link to apply to an open crew member position; the interview process includes remote computer-based testing and a one-day in-person panel and situational-based interviews; no work-visa sponsorship, and a Permanent Resident Card for non-US citizens; the turboprops FedEx counts as weight- or jet-equivalent; sorties converted at 0.30 h. The page dates no First Officer vacancy and makes no hiring statement. FedEx’s pilot hiring page and FAQ on groundcareers.fedex.com returned only FedEx’s general careers home page, so what they add was read in search results the same day: four steps, the profile assessed first by a computer program and then by FedEx’s team, retroactive changes that may eliminate a candidate, the interviews at its Memphis offices, two interviews conducted by FedEx pilots, and a logbook and document review, fingerprinting, photographs and drug testing on the day. Search results of 13 October 2026 had shown the pilot profile entry on careers.fedex.com/pilot and FedEx’s Purple Runway site, and PilotsGlobal’s relays of FedEx B767, B777 and MD-11 First Officer postings marked closed. FedEx’s pilots reached a tentative agreement on 8 April 2026 (Bloomberg Law) and ratified it on 9 June 2026 (ALPA, in search results). A preparation provider’s claim, relayed by ATP Flight School on 22 June 2026, that FedEx planned about 800 pilot hires in 2026 has no FedEx source. Fleet from FedEx’s Form 10-K for the year to 31 May 2026, in search results (its 383 mainline aircraft match FreightWaves, June 2026); bases from press reports (Airways, April 2023) and ALPA (March 2025), since FedEx’s careers page lists none.

• Researched on 23 October 2026 from FedEx’s own pilot careers page, read directly. The details of its pilot hiring page beyond the FAQ (the computer assessment of the profile and the warning on retroactive changes, the two interviews conducted by FedEx pilots, and the logbook and document review, fingerprinting, photographs and drug testing on the interview day) are from search-engine results of that day: the page itself returned only FedEx’s general careers home page. Confirm them with FedEx before you rely on them.
• Whether FedEx is selecting pilots from its applicant pool in autumn 2026: a preparation provider reported in June 2026, as ATP Flight School relayed it, that FedEx planned about 800 pilot hires in 2026, with classes from July; we found no FedEx source for it
• What the remote computer-based tests contain: FedEx does not say, a pilot wrote in 2022 that candidates sign non-disclosure agreements, and the accounts we found are a 2011 forum summary of an older format and a preparation site’s description of cognitive tests
• Whether the in-person day includes a simulator or training-device scenario: FedEx’s FAQ describes a panel and a situational-based interview; a 2011 account of an older format listed a simulator, a pilot wrote in 2016 that it had been dropped, and a 2026 preparation site lists a simulator ride
• How FedEx applies its passport requirement to permanent residents: it lists a valid US passport among its mandatory requirements and also says that all non-US citizens must hold a Permanent Resident Card, without saying how the two fit together
• Whether any pilots remain based in Anchorage, Los Angeles or Guangzhou: FedEx said in April 2023 that it would close its Anchorage and Los Angeles MD-11 crew bases, yet ALPA’s FedEx page still lists Anchorage, and a 2023 press report names Guangzhou

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a First Officer vacancy is open on Sun Country’s own portal
• Total-hours figure for applicants outside the Bridge program

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Search results of 14 October 2026 showed UPS’s First Officer posting on jobs-ups.com (Louisville, job ID R25006614, permanent) and copies of it: a current unrestricted ATP with an airplane multi-engine class rating, 1,500 h total fixed-wing pilot time, a First Class medical, an FCC Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit, a valid passport and US work authorization, with no sponsorship; a bachelor’s degree or higher and recent transport-category flying among the preferred skills. Lensa’s copy was dated 15 September 2026. Copies of UPS First Officer postings on PilotsGlobal, Skybound and Lensa list 1,000 h PIC in fixed-wing jets and/or multi-engine turboprops (14 CFR 1.1) as a minimum, one copy as preferred, and a 0.3 h per sortie credit for military candidates; postings name Louisville, Miami, Ontario and Anchorage as domiciles. Read directly the same day: the posting’s address on jobs-ups.com opened the careers site’s job search page, not the posting; UPS’s FlightPath I and II pages (jobs-ups.com/us/en/ups-flightpath-i and -ii) were live and give UPS’s hiring process as an application, a records review and an interview (older, indexed versions also listed a simulator evaluation), while the record’s earlier address, jobs-ups.com/ups-flightpath, also opened only the job search page; UPS’s Form 10-K for 2025 gives the fleet at 31 December 2025 and says UPS permanently grounded and then retired its MD-11 fleet in the fourth quarter of 2025 (one of its MD-11s had the accident at Louisville on 4 November 2025). We found no source for a pilot domicile at Philadelphia, listed in this record before, or for UPS hiring in windows. The posting itself could not be read.

• Researched on 14 October 2026 from search-engine results of UPS’s First Officer postings and industry job boards; UPS’s FlightPath pages and annual report were read directly, the posting itself could not be. Confirm a vacancy is open before you apply.
• Whether UPS has a First Officer posting open: on 14 October 2026 the address of the posting that search results showed (job ID R25006614, copied by a job site on 15 September 2026) opened only the job search page of UPS’s careers site
• Whether the 1,000 h as pilot in command is a minimum or a preference: most copies of UPS’s First Officer postings list it as a minimum, one among the preferred qualifications
• Whether UPS’s hiring process still includes a simulator evaluation: older versions of its FlightPath pages listed one, the current versions only the application, records review and interview
• How long FlightPath II and its stages last: UPS’s page calls it a 36-month program but gives its stages as 24 months and at least 30 months, and Ameriflight’s page gives a 12-month UPS mentoring stage
• How UPS applies the 0.3 h per sortie: its postings do not say whether it counts toward total time, command time or both

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 23 October 2026 through the GitHub-runner download: Allegiant’s pilot careers page (allegiantair.jobs/careers/pilots/) said “Our First Officer application window is closed at this time” and “The Allegiant Pilot Pathway Program application window is now closed”, while its Accelerate section was still headed “Accepting cadets for the Accelerate Pilot Pathway”, with 13 partner universities and an application link for their students. The page lists the steps after applying (video interview and PRD review, behavioral assessment, virtual interview with regional chief pilots) and 10 to 12 weeks of training at its Las Vegas and Sanford training centers, but gives no hours, certificate or right-to-work requirements. Search-engine results the same day showed job-board copies of its Las Vegas First Officer posting (JobTarget, Rise, Jobera, the OBAP career center, Recruiter.com), none of them dated, with the requirements in this record, and PilotsGlobal’s relay of its A320-family First Officer posting marked closed; the fleet from Allegiant Travel Company’s second-quarter 2026 results and Form 10-Q and its Form 10-K for 2025, ALPA’s statement of 13 May 2026 on the closing of the Sun Country acquisition, AeroXplorer (April 2026) on the Bellingham and Savannah crew bases and Skift and AirlineGeeks (5 August 2026) on pilot attrition at Sun Country were also read in search results, not in the documents. Read in full: Fox5 Vegas (3 August 2026) on the ratification of the pilots’ two-year contract, Reuters (via AJOT, 8 December 2025) on the pilots employed on H-1B1 and E-3 visas, and, on the pathways, the Kent State and Eastern Kentucky pages, Second Wave Media on Western Michigan (November 2023), Spartan Education Group’s release (February 2023) and afm.aero’s report from McAir (March 2026). On 29 September 2026 search results had shown the same closed First Officer window.

• The requirements here (certificate, hours, age, documents, right to work) come from undated job-board copies of Allegiant’s First Officer posting, read in search results on 23 October 2026, not from Allegiant’s own site: its careers page, read that day, gives no hours or certificate while the First Officer window is closed, and the copies differ on pay and on the preferred experience. Confirm them in the posting when the window reopens.
• When the next First Officer window opens — Allegiant publishes no date
• Whether the Accelerate Pilot Pathway is taking applications: Allegiant’s careers page, read on 23 October 2026, said “The Allegiant Pilot Pathway Program application window is now closed” but still headed its Accelerate section “Accepting cadets for the Accelerate Pilot Pathway”, with an application link for partner-university students
• Whether Allegiant accepts each restricted-ATP tier for direct entry: the job-board copies name 1,250, 1,000 and 750 hours, Allegiant’s own page gives no hours, and a 2023 article describes Accelerate cadets from Western Michigan joining at 1,000 hours
• Whether Allegiant still recruits pilots on visas: the job-board copies of its posting say no visa sponsorship is available, while Reuters reported in December 2025 that about 62 pilots from Chile, Australia and Singapore were employed on H-1B1 and E-3 visas and that the pilots’ union had declined to certify a step their green-card applications needed
• Whether Allegiant Air and Sun Country Airlines will put their pilots on one seniority list, and when: the two pilot groups have different unions, and the Teamsters said in August 2026 that seniority-list integration was their next focus; we found no integrated list or joint contract at the last check

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 15 October 2026 through the GitHub-runner fetch: Southwest’s pilot careers page (careers.southwestair.com/us/en/pilots) said “Our Pilot - First Officer application is currently closed” and invited pilots to join its Pilot Talent Community for notices about upcoming postings; the requisition seen on 21 September 2026, R-2026-70945, now returns “gone”. The page lists the minimum qualifications (an FAA ATP showing Airplane Multiengine Land ratings and the English Proficient limitation; an FAA First Class medical), preferred flight experience (500 h in fixed-wing turbine aircraft or a completed Destination 225° pathway; actively flying for two of the last five years; only fixed-wing time counts), thirteen pilot domiciles and about two months of new-hire training at the LEAD Center in Dallas. Seen only in search results and job boards’ copies: the 2026 posting’s 2,500 h total or 1,500 h turbine, age 23 at hire, PRD access and no work-authorization sponsorship, and a copy with an end date of 31 August 2026. An industry tracker recorded 794 Southwest pilot hires between January and July 2026. Southwest’s press release of 12 December 2025 announced the Austin crew base from March 2026, starting with about 335 pilots.

• The hours minimum in Southwest’s own words: 2,500 h total or 1,500 h turbine is from search-engine and job-board copies of the 2026 posting, now removed; Southwest’s careers page, read on 15 October 2026, states no hours minimum beyond the ATP
• PRD access, age 23 at hire and no work-authorization sponsorship: job boards’ copies of the 2026 posting only
• When the next application window opens: Southwest gives notice of upcoming postings to its Pilot Talent Community, not publicly
• Whether the interview day includes a simulator check or a group exercise: preparation sites list both, while candidate reports posted in 2026 describe neither

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Found while refreshing the Frontier Airlines record on 16 October 2026. Read in full on 16 October 2026: NPR, 2 May 2026 (Spirit’s statement: “on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines started an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately”, all flights canceled; the USD 500 million federal bailout talks had failed; two bankruptcy filings since 2024). Read in search-engine results: AP reports of 5 and 6 May 2026 (the bankruptcy court’s approval of the wind-down and asset sale on 5 May), NPR, 8 May 2026, and Reuters, June 2026, on its former employees; Frontier’s pilot careers page, read directly the same day, links to “Pilot Opportunities for Spirit Airlines Professionals”. spirit.com was not read. The record of 21 September 2026 still described Spirit as recalling furloughed pilots in Chapter 11.

• Researched on 16 October 2026 from NPR’s report of 2 May 2026, read in full, and from search-engine results of AP and Reuters reports, not from spirit.com.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Four pilot vacancies (First Officer, Accelerated Command, Direct Entry Captain, National Cadet Pilot Programme) were live in Emirates' own job feed when checked on 25 Aug 2026, all Dubai-based, none carrying a closing date, and all four application links returned HTTP 200 (i.e. applications are open). Emirates' own pilots page also carries 53 recruitment open-day sessions with live Microsoft Forms registration links, the earliest sessions marked 'Fully booked'. Emirates prints only day and month on those sessions (02 Sep to 26 Feb); aviation press reports in August 2026 dated the roadshow from Madrid on 6 August 2026 to February 2027. Update, 21 September 2026: Emirates’ September 2026 recruitment roadshow across South Korea, Ireland and the UK (13 sessions covering Direct Entry Captain, Accelerated Command and First Officer) was reported by afm.aero, and the Emirates Group pilots page remained live in search results, consistent with continued hiring. Not re-read directly on the portal. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: Philippine press reported Emirates’ first pilot recruitment roadshow in Manila, on 28 and 29 October 2026, for First Officers, Direct Entry Captains and the Accelerated Command Programme, consistent with continued hiring. Not re-read on the portal.

• Roadshow dates. Emirates' pilots page lists 53 open-day sessions with day and month only ('02 Sep' ... '26 Feb'), no year. Aviation press reports in August 2026 (aviationa2z.com, afm.aero) describe the current roadshow as opening in Madrid on 6 August 2026 and running until February, so the sessions run from August 2026 to February 2027. Check a session's date on Emirates' page before you travel.
• Vacancy posting dates on Emirates' own job board are old and none carry a closing date: First Officer posted 28 May 2024, Direct Entry Captain 28 May 2025, Accelerated Command 28 May 2025, National Cadet Pilot Programme 01 Apr 2025 (all confirmed from the job feed's own postingdate fields). These read as evergreen/rolling adverts, so the posting date is not evidence of a fresh hiring round. What supports the 'hiring' status is that the vacancies are live and their application links are open today, not their age.
• No maximum entry age was found for any direct-entry route on the pages checked (pilots landing page, four role pages, four vacancy texts). So none is published; that is not the same as Emirates having no age cap.
• Emirates' own National Cadet Pilot Programme role page (/pilots/our-role-details/?name=national-cadet-pilot-programme) currently renders Direct Entry Captain content (confirmed 25 Aug 2026: it shows '7000+ total flying time' and 'Pilot in command Airbus'), an apparent site error. The cadet requirements given here come from the live cadet vacancy instead.
• Whether the B777 First Officer stream is genuinely open in practice could not be confirmed. A single First Officer advert covers B777, A380 and A350 streams, but both command adverts are Airbus-focused, so the current fleet demand split is unknown.
• No pilot headcount target is stated on the Emirates careers pages checked. Our study-guide research (September 2026) records that on 1 May 2025 Emirates committed to hiring more than 1,500 pilots over two years and reported more than 450 pilot hires in 2025-26; the afm.aero roadshow article we checked states no numerical target.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

At the check of 25 August 2026, five experienced-pilot vacancies were live on Etihad's own applicant tracking system (SmartRecruiters instance 'EtihadAirways5', linked from careers.etihad.com): First Officer (A320), First Officer - Airbus Wide Body, Captain (A320), Captain - Airbus Wide body and Captain A320 - Instructor, all released 31 July 2026. A sixth pilot vacancy, the UAE National Cadet Pilot Programme, was released 6 May 2026. All six were confirmed as public on Etihad's own SmartRecruiters API on 25 August 2026, and Etihad's pilot careers page advertised seven recruitment events between September and October 2026. Note that the Cadet Pilot Programme is filed under Etihad's L&D function rather than the Pilots function, so it did not appear on the careers.smartrecruiters.com/EtihadAirways5/pilots vacancy index, which then listed only the five experienced-pilot roles. Search results on 12 October 2026 also show non-type-rated 'First Officer A320' and 'Captain A320' listings on careers.etihad.com (the First Officer one dated 29 March 2026), which were not among the vacancies listed on 25 August. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: job boards relayed Etihad pilot roadshows for Captains and First Officers on the A320 family, rated and non-rated, in Munich on 13 October, Frankfurt on 15 October and online on 20 October 2026. Not re-read on the portal. Re-checked on 19 October 2026 on Etihad’s own systems, read through the GitHub runner (deploy.yml fetch_url): its SmartRecruiters feed (api.smartrecruiters.com/v1/companies/EtihadAirways5/postings, 94 postings) listed five pilot roles, “First Officer - A320” and “Captain - A320” (released 8 October 2026, refs 80372 and 80371), “First Officer - A330” and “Captain - A330” (released 9 October 2026, refs 82321 and 82320), all Abu Dhabi, full-time, career-site category “Pilot Jobs”, section “Airbus Fleet”, and the “Cadet Pilot Programme” (released 6 May 2026, category “UAEN Jobs”). None of the five experienced-pilot roles released on 31 July 2026 was still listed. The postings’ texts were not read. Etihad’s pilots page (careers.etihad.com/teams/pilots) listed recruitment events in Athens (20 October), Barcelona (28 October), Hong Kong (28 October), online (17 November) and Kuala Lumpur (24 November 2026), and describes a tax-free package of basic salary, flying pay, housing allowance and layover and meal allowances. Read directly on 20 October 2026, through the GitHub runner (deploy.yml fetch_url): the texts of the four experienced-pilot postings on Etihad’s SmartRecruiters API (744000154376910, 744000154377818, 744000154615965 and 744000154615919; the feed listed 99 postings, none of them a non-type-rated pilot role). First Officer - A320 (ref 80372): Criteria A, 2,000 h total with 1,500 h on multi-crew glass-cockpit aircraft and 500 h on type, or Criteria B, 1,500 h total with 1,000 h on any A320 family aircraft. First Officer - A330 (ref 82321): 2,500 h total with 1,500 h on multi-crew glass-cockpit aircraft and 1,000 h on type. Captain - A320 (ref 80371): 5,500 h total, 2,500 h PIC on multi-crew glass cockpit and 1,500 h PIC on the A320 family. Captain - A330 (ref 82320): 7,000 h total, 2,500 h PIC as commander and 1,500 h PIC on type. Every one wants the type flown in the last 12 months and the type rating valid for at least 2 more months at joining, an unrestricted current Class 1 and ICAO English Level 4; First Officers must not have reached 50 and Captains 59 on the day of joining. Pay as before: up to AED 513,732 (First Officer) and AED 674,029 (Captain) a year at 75 flying hours a month. No bond, visa or closing date is stated. Re-read on 20 October 2026 by the fact-checker, through the GitHub runner: the four posting texts and the feed of 99 postings (the four experienced-pilot roles and the Cadet Pilot Programme, released 6 May 2026, category “UAEN Jobs”, Abu Dhabi, the only pilot postings), and the pilots page (the same five recruitment events as on 19 October, and “Even if you don’t yet fulfil some of our selection criteria, come along and register your interest”).

• The pilot selection process stages. Etihad does not publish them. The former careers.etihad.com/content/Our-Recruitment-Process/ page now returns HTTP 404. Third-party interview-prep and pilot-forum sites describe a sequence involving COMPASS aptitude testing, an ATPL technical test, a group exercise, an HR and fleet manager panel interview, English testing, a simulator assessment and a medical, conducted over roughly three days in Abu Dhabi with travel and accommodation provided. None of that is confirmed by Etihad, so it is not the airline's published process.
• Specific fleet variants in Etihad’s own vacancies, which name only “A320 family” and “A330” (October 2026; the July 2026 vacancies said “Airbus Wide Body FBW” and “Boeing wide body”). The type counts above come from Etihad’s February 2026 traffic statistics, as cited in our study-guide research; the etihad.com fleet page could not be retrieved on 25 August 2026.
• Whether Etihad will list non-type-rated First Officers again. A non-type-rated A320 First Officer listing (dated 29 March 2026 in search results; relayed by Rishworth Aviation at 2,500 h total with 1,500 h on multi-crew glass-cockpit aircraft) and a non-type-rated 777/787 one (our study-guide research, September 2026: 1,500 h multi-crew glass cockpit, 500 h on Boeing, current on any Boeing) have been seen; neither was among the vacancies listed on 25 August or on 19 and 20 October 2026, and third-party claims that non-rated First Officers go to the A320 or B787 are otherwise unconfirmed.
• Third-party salary ranges. Aggregator sites quote figures such as USD 98,000-195,000 for First Officers and USD 190,000-380,000 for Captains. Etihad's own adverts publish up to AED 513,732 (USD 138,318) for a First Officer and up to AED 674,029 (USD 181,589) for a Captain, both at 75 flying hours per month. Only the Etihad figures are used above; the wider aggregator ranges could not be confirmed.
• Visa sponsorship and right to work for the experienced-pilot roles. Relocation support is published but no explicit statement of visa sponsorship, nationality eligibility or right-to-work requirement appears in the direct entry adverts (read on 20 October 2026).
• Application closing dates. None of the vacancies listed on 20 October 2026 publishes a closing date.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Captain age limit and command-time split
• Contract, salary and visa terms
• Cadet Pilot eligibility

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

flydubai’s own careers pages for First Officer (careers.flydubai.com/first-officer), Captain (/captain) and Second Officer vacancies appeared in search results in late September 2026, job boards were relaying its pilot adverts, and a Pilot Cadet advert from 225 hours circulated in 2026. flydubai recruits only through its own portal, which we could not open to confirm which streams are accepting applications. The 2026 regional conflict is the backdrop: the UAE partially closed its airspace from 28 February, UAE carriers restarted gradually in March and the last restrictions were lifted in early May; in mid-September the chief executive said flydubai was serving about 130 of its roughly 140 pre-war destinations and expected to be back at or slightly above pre-war capacity by the end of the year (our study-guide research, September 2026). Read directly on 19 October 2026, through the GitHub runner (deploy.yml fetch_url): flydubai’s First Officer page (careers.flydubai.com/first-officer) and Captain page (careers.flydubai.com/captain). First Officer: high school diploma, valid ICAO ATPL, ICAO first-class medical, ELP level 4 or above; type rated: B737-300 to -900 (EFIS/NG/MAX) endorsed within the last 24 months, at least 1,500 MPA hours and 500 hours on the B737-300 to -900 (EFIS/NG/MAX); non type rated: at least 2,500 hours total, at least 1,000 hours on modern (EFIS) multi-crew multi-engine aircraft over 10 tonnes (preference to those with PIC time) and at least 1,500 MPA hours. Captain: type rated: the 737 endorsed within 24 months, 5,000 hours total, 1,500 in command of multi-crew multi-engine aircraft over 10 tonnes and 1,000 in command of the B737-300 to -900 (EFIS/NG/MAX); non type rated: 5,000 hours with 1,500 in command of a modern EFIS multi-crew multi-engine jet over 55 tonnes (A318 or larger), or 6,000 hours with 1,500 in command of one over 50 tonnes (EMB 190/195 or similar). Both pages: “Training Bond 3 Years”, USD 24,000 type rated, USD 36,000 non type rated; published pay; an open-ended contract. Both pages link to the application portal, which we could not open, and neither mentions the visa. Read directly on 20 October 2026, through the GitHub runner (deploy.yml fetch_url): flydubai’s Second Officer page (careers.flydubai.com/second-officer), “Second Officer Programme” for “aspiring CPL holders”: a GCAA or ICAO CPL with a GCAA frozen ATPL, a valid first-class medical, ELP level 4 or above, MCC, an advanced UPRT certificate and a high school diploma, ages 20 to 35 for external candidates (20 to 40 for internal ones after two years with flydubai); a B737NG/MAX type rating “with no upfront type rating cost” (phase 0, about 3 months, without pay), then AED 14,300 a month and, after the first phase check, AED 23,015 a month up to 1,500 hours, when the Second Officer becomes a First Officer; a USD 36,000 bond for 24 months, reduced by monthly salary deduction until repaid on becoming a First Officer; 36 days of paid leave; a USD 1,000 assessment fee charged at assessment. No hours minimum is published. The two versions of that page in search results on 19 October (195 or 220 hours, a type rating already held, a five-year bond) are superseded. Its careers FAQ (careers.flydubai.com/faq) carries a recruitment fraud warning: flydubai never asks for bank details to process documents, never refers candidates to a third party to process applications or visas, and advertises its jobs on its own websites. The First Officer page was unchanged from 19 October. None of the three pilot pages mentions the visa: the visa sponsorship in requirements.rightToWork comes from job-board copies of its First Officer adverts (September 2026).

• Which streams are accepting applications. flydubai’s First Officer, Captain and Second Officer pages, read on 19 and 20 October 2026, publish the requirements, but the vacancies themselves are on its application portal, which we could not open. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the three-year training bond reduces over its term: the First Officer and Captain pages give only “Training Bond 3 Years” and the two amounts.
• Whether the November 2025 MAX and A321neo memoranda have become firm orders
• Bond terms and pay for the cadet stream

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Researched on 17 October 2026 from search-engine results. Through the GitHub runner, Riyadh Air’s pilot portal (pilots-riyadhair.icims.com) returned only a page shell, its job list loading by script, with the portal’s warning that Riyadh Air engages with applicants only through its official channels and never asks for payments or bank details; riyadhair.com/en/careers returned HTTP 403. In search results, the portal showed the 787 First Officer posting (job 2024-1124, titled “First Officer B787” and “First Officer - Future Opportunities 2025”): 2,000 h on multi-crew, multi-engine jets, operating seat only, a valid ICAO ATPL, an unrestricted Class 1 and ICAO English Level 4 or above; Pilot Career Center’s copy of the 2026 First Officer campaign says Level 5. A “Direct Entry Captain B787” posting (job 2024-1123) also appeared on the portal; job boards’ copies of it (Pilot Career Center, PilotsGlobal) ask for 6,000 h including 2,000 h of recent wide-body command, 150 h in command in the last 12 months, ICAO English Level 5 and an age below 59, with type rating training provided. Job boards relayed a First Officer A321 posting (ID 2026-5434, September 2026: 1,500 h, 150 h in the last 12 months, ICAO English Level 4; Avianation, allflyingjobs) and a Direct Entry Captain A321 posting (ID 2026-5435). Scheduled services began on 10 June 2026, Riyadh to London Heathrow (CAPA). GACA suspended operations at King Khalid International Airport after an attack on 10 October 2026 and extended the suspension on 12 and 14 October (Qatar News Agency, CAPA, AGBI, Khaleej Times); no reopening had been confirmed on 17 October. Riyadh Air canceled flights (Khaleej Times, from Cirium data) and flew its 787s away from Riyadh on 13 October (AeroCorner; Aviation A2Z, 14 October 2026). Not read directly on the portal.

• Researched on 17 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own pilot portal, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal, whose job list loads by script. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• The A321 and Captain postings’ text on the portal itself: their figures come from job boards’ copies
• Which English level applies to each route now: Level 4 in the portal’s 787 First Officer posting and the A321 copies as indexed, Level 5 in the Captain copies and earlier First Officer copies
• Whether First Officers need a 787 type rating: the portal’s posting, as indexed, lists none among its mandatory requirements, but one job board’s copy says a rating is required
• Whether the under-59 age limit of the Captain posting also applies to First Officers
• The selection stages: Riyadh Air publishes none, and candidates’ reports are not confirmed by the airline

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Captain hours minimum
• Whether both postings are currently accepting applications

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked live on the airline's own Avature careers portal on 25 August 2026. The 'Pilots & Flight Operations' job family returned exactly four live roles, none of them a mainline flight-deck job: Type Rated Captain - Qatar Executive BD700 (ref 240000AB, posted 07-04-2026, closes 30-11-2026), Helicopter Captain AW189 (ref 2600008V, posted 23-08-2026, closed 06-09-2026), Helicopter Captain AW139 (ref 2600008W, posted 23-08-2026, closed 06-09-2026) and a Senior Pilot Selection Assessor recruiter role (ref 235423, posted 11-08-2026, closed 25-08-2026). There is no Direct Entry First Officer and no Direct Entry Captain vacancy for mainline Qatar Airways, and the former direct-entry job URL (Type Rated First Officer Airbus, /JobDetail/Type-Rated-First-Officer-Airbus/49481) was confirmed by direct request to return HTTP 404. The Cadet Pilot Training Programme page (ref 250000KA, Qatari nationals only) still loads on the airline's own domain, but it did not appear in the Pilots & Flight Operations job-family listing, and no posting or closing date could be confirmed from the page itself - a job-detail page can stay reachable by direct URL after it stops being advertised. Treat even the cadet route as 'page live, open status unconfirmed'. The 'cadet-only' status therefore rests on a firmly verified negative (no mainline direct entry vacancy exists today) plus a partially verified positive (the cadet advert page loads). Update, September 2026 (our study-guide research, September 2026, citing Reuters): the remaining A330s were permanently retired, a group of pilots — some of whom had not flown commercially since the war began — was seconded voluntarily and short-term to RwandAir, and the airline announced 138 new aircraft over five years. Re-checked in search results on 12 October 2026: no mainline direct-entry pilot campaign was found; the First Officer listings still relayed by job boards are marked closed. Not re-read on the portal.

• ALL mainline hours thresholds, MTOW thresholds and on-type minimums from Qatar Airways' previous direct-entry campaigns. They were attributed to web.archive.org captures of QR's own job pages (Type Rated FO Airbus ref 240000B5, Type Rated FO Boeing ref 240000B6, Non-Type Rated FO ref 250000DT, Type Rated Captain Airbus ref 220000RG), quoting figures such as 1,000 hrs total on a jet of MTOW 30,000 kg+ with 500 hrs on type for the type-rated FO, 1,000 hrs on an EFIS jet of MTOW 20,000 kg+ for the non-type-rated FO, and 6,000 hrs total with 500 hrs PIC on an Airbus FBW type for the Captain. None of these archive captures could be retrieved on 25 August 2026, and all belong to adverts that are now closed, so none of them is a current Qatar Airways requirement.
• The specific closing dates previously attributed to those closed mainline adverts (30-Jun-2026, 19-Jun-2025, 16-Jun-2025) - these could not be re-checked.
• The mainline direct entry license and medical wording from previous campaigns (ICAO ATPL or Frozen ATPL with valid ATPL theory credit and IR; Class 1 medical issued by the same authority that issued the license and valid a minimum of 2 months past the start date) - from the same unretrievable archive captures. Not currently published.
• Whether ICAO English Language Proficiency Level 4 applies to mainline direct entry. It is confirmed on the live Qatar Executive BD-700 advert only.
• Whether Qatar Airways still operates separate type-rated and non-type-rated direct entry First Officer streams at all, and whether a type rating would be provided or bonded - not published on any live page.
• Age limits for direct entry First Officers and Captains - NOT PUBLISHED anywhere on Qatar Airways' own site. Any age figure quoted by job boards or forums was not confirmed and should not be relied on.

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

First read on 19 October 2026, and read again on 20 October 2026 (fact-check), on Saudia’s own careers portal (careers.saudia.com, an SAP SuccessFactors site), through the GitHub runner: the keyword searches “pilot” and “cadet” (one result each, the Saudia Cadet Program), “captain” and “officer” (“There are currently no open positions matching”), the portal’s RSS feed for “pilot” and its sitemap (both list job 857339423 only for pilots), and the posting itself, careers.saudia.com/job/Saudia-Cadet-Program-02/857339423/, dated 17 October 2026, company Saudia. The previous check, on 21 September 2026, found an earlier Cadet Program posting (job 857159923) in search results. saudia.com itself answered with a bot-protection page. Industry job boards relay undated or older Saudia postings for rated Captains and experienced First Officers; none was on the portal. On 20 October 2026, through the runner again: the searches “pilot” and “first officer” each returned one job, the Saudia Cadet Program; “captain” and “officer” returned “There are currently no open positions matching”; the RSS feed for “pilot” carried only the Cadet Program, dated 17 October 2026; the sitemap listed it as the only pilot job, beside a flight attendant posting and four Saudia Technic jobs; the posting’s text was unchanged. GACA’s TFA form (archived copy) and GACAR Part 61, version 7.0 (archived copy, §§ 61.55 and 61.57), were read the same day.

• Read on 20 October 2026 on Saudia’s careers portal (its searches, RSS feed and the Cadet Program posting); saudia.com itself could not be read. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether Saudia recruits expatriate First Officers or Captains at all in 2026: job boards have relayed Saudia postings for rated A330 and B777 Captains, asking about 6,000 hours, and for First Officers, but we could not date them or find them on Saudia’s portal
• Visa sponsorship, contracts and pay for expatriate pilots: we found none of them on Saudia’s careers portal, and saudia.com itself could not be read
• The selection stages after the Cadet Program application, and the training, fleet and base that follow: the posting does not give them
• An age limit for the Cadet Program: the posting gives none; a job-board copy of a 2017 intake gave 19 to 40
• Saudia’s fleet count today and its split by type: Saudia gives only the year-end figure it expects, 161 aircraft, and trade-press counts for 2026 differ

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Researched on 22 October 2026. Read directly that day, in downloads made through the GitHub runner (tools/careers/src/gulf-2026-10-22/): careers.airarabia.com, which names operations in the UAE, Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan and “Saudi Arabia from 2026” and whose job counts (“Pilots 0 jobs”, every category at 0, beside template placeholders) are filled in by script, so inconclusive, as on 19 October 2026; the Air Arabia Group’s Pilots page (over 1,200 pilots, an A320 and A321 fleet, AOC transfers, a choice of base hub, relocation assistance, and Air Arabia Academy’s MPL, CPL and A320 type-rating training); the Dammam First Officer posting (job 17045), which reads “the job you are trying to apply for has been filled”; and AFM’s article of 24 August 2026 on the Academy’s 2027 MPL intakes and the fleet. From search-engine results only: Air Arabia’s “Grow at Air Arabia” page (the cadet program’s 1,500-hour training contract; the CPL Airline Programme). Job-board copies of Air Arabia’s postings: the South Africa and Vietnam drives (posted 22 July 2026), the Indonesia drive (27 July 2026) and the Bahrain open day for Air Arabia Dammam (1 October 2026) on jobxdubai.com; the Dammam open day of 25 June 2026 on sabbar.com; the Dammam First Officer post on PilotsGlobal; Fly Jinnah’s fixed-term Captain and First Officer posts on AviationCV; UAE-national roles in Sharjah on skybound.jobs. Press: AirInsight (Argentina and Chile drive, March 2026), AFM (24 September 2025, Dammam First Officers), Gulf News, WAM and CAPA (the Dammam airline’s AOC on 14 September 2026 and first flights on 20 September 2026). The previous check, on 21 September 2026, was from search results.

• Researched on 22 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal; the Air Arabia pages downloaded that day (the careers home page, the Group’s pilots page and the Dammam First Officer posting, marked filled) give no hours, ratings or dates. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a drive or vacancy open to pilots from abroad is open now: the last we found were in South Africa (August 2026), Vietnam and Indonesia (September 2026) and, for the Dammam airline, Bahrain (1 October 2026); a drive in Malaysia in December 2026 appeared on one job board only
• The posting dates of the Sharjah roles for UAE nationals and whether they are still open, and the date of the Dammam First Officer post, marked filled on Air Arabia’s careers site on 22 October 2026
• Whether the Dammam Captain post needs a type rating: one job-board copy says it is not required and training is provided, while the open days were for type-rated pilots
• Contract terms, pay and visa for pilots hired from abroad, which differ by operating company; job-board figures are not confirmed by Air Arabia
• The CPL Airline Programme, seen only in a search-result summary of Air Arabia’s “Grow at Air Arabia” page: whether it is open, its entry terms, cost and intakes, and whether its pilots join as First or Second Officers

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September and 12 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a First Officer stream is open
• Bond terms for the provided type rating

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Researched on 22 October 2026. Read directly that day, in downloads made through the GitHub runner (tools/careers/src/gulf-2026-10-22/): Oman Air’s careers pages (omanair.com/en/careers and services.omanair.com/gbl/en/careers), which name the Cadet Pilot scheme and “careers at the commander level” for those with the relevant experience and link to a Latest Vacancies list that was not downloaded; and its fleet page (omanair.com/en/our-fleet: ten 787-9s, 18 737-8 MAX and two 737-900s). From search-engine results: PilotsGlobal’s relays of Oman Air’s B737NG First Officer, A330 First Officer and B737NG Captain postings, which the previous check (21 September 2026, from search results) took for current, were marked “This vacancy has been closed”, with no posting date visible; GulfTalent’s Oman Air First Officer listing no longer accepted applications, and AllFlyingJobs listed no Oman Air job. An undated Flightdeckfriend listing of recruitment through L3 was not found on Oman Air’s pages. Cadet intakes and graduations from Oman Air’s ATPL program, in the press: June 2023 (11 cadets, Second Officers), January 2024 (21 cadets signed), May 2025 (7 graduates, AFM). Oman Air’s Flight Training Centre was approved by Oman’s CAA for 737 and 787 type-rating training (Times of Oman, 8 October 2025). Restructuring and fleet: ch-aviation (A330s’ last flights 30 March 2024), Gulf Business (3 October 2025), Oman Air’s release of 2 February 2026 (33 aircraft; six wide-bodies from mid-2028), all three in search results only. License conversion: CAA Oman forms FSD PEL 01-022 and 01-027, read as search summaries.

• Researched on 22 October 2026 from search-engine results of job boards, Oman Air’s news pages and the press, with Oman Air’s careers and fleet pages read directly; its list of current vacancies was not read. Confirm any vacancy on Oman Air’s own careers page before you apply.
• Whether Oman Air recruits pilots from abroad at all at present: the three postings relayed by job boards in September 2026 were marked closed on 22 October 2026, and none showed a date we could read
• Whether the minimums of those last postings (1,500 h with 300 on type for First Officers; 5,000 h with 1,500 PIC and 500 on type for Captains; Captains aged 25 to under 55) still apply
• An undated job-board listing of recruitment of rated B737 First Officers and Captains through L3 (age under 46, a two-year renewable contract in Muscat, about GBP 65,000 a year): not found on Oman Air’s pages
• Visa, contract length and pay for pilots hired from abroad: not published on a current vacancy; salary guides’ figures are not Oman Air’s
• The Cadet Pilot scheme’s current entry terms (age, education, cost share) and the date of its next intake: Oman Air’s careers page gives none, and press reports from 2013 to 2025 differ

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Contract terms and roster for expatriates

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 15 October 2026 through the GitHub-runner fetch. Air India’s careers portal (careers.airindia.com: the pilot search and the portal’s job feed) listed four pilot postings, each stated to be “with Air India Express”, with no closing date and dated 4 to 11 October 2026 in the feed: A320 Type Rated Co-Pilots (First Officer / Senior First Officer, job 52901044), B737 Type Rated Co-Pilots (job 52871144), A320 Type Rated Captains (job 56097544) and B737 Type Rated and Non Type Rated (Transition) Captains (job 58659944). Each names four stages of selection: psychometric assessment, personal interview, simulator flight proficiency test and pre-employment medical examination. The Trainee Pilot Programme page (traineepilot.airindia.com) said to stay tuned for upcoming opportunities; the Trainee Pilot (A320) posting of December 2025 (job 50458444) and the 2026 Cadet Pilot Program posting (job 59274844) both read “this position has been filled”. Seen only in search results: the trainee posting’s dates (23 December 2025 to 10 January 2026) and its six stages, the cadet posting’s dates (27 August to 15 September 2026), eligibility and stages, and afm.aero’s report that the A320 co-pilot campaign opened in February 2026. The government told Parliament in March 2025 that Air India would need about 5,870 more pilots over the decade.

• The trainee and cadet postings’ dates, eligibility and stages, which were read in search results before the postings were filled; Air India’s own pages now show only “this position has been filled”
• Whether the type-rated postings, dated 4 to 11 October 2026 in the portal’s feed, are the February 2026 campaign reposted or new postings
• Expatriate eligibility beyond OCI holders: the adverts name Indian nationals and Overseas Citizens of India only

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 17 October 2026: akasaair.com refused both the sandbox and a GitHub runner (HTTP 403), and Akasa’s PeopleStrong job page returned no job text, so the “Hiring Pilots” page (akasaair.com/careers-at-akasa-air/pilots-careers-at-akasa-air) was read in the Internet Archive’s latest copy, saved on 18 April 2026 (read in full through the runner; search results of 17 October 2026 relay the same wording). It lists Experienced First Officers, “Minimum 500 hrs of Jet or Turboprop flying experience”, and “B737 Type Rated First Officers (Freshers)”, for whom a “Valid B737 Type Rating is mandatory” (older search results relayed a “CPL Holders (Freshers): Non Type Rated CPL holders” track, which that copy no longer shows); a pre-employment assessment of a personal interview, a psychological assessment and drug test, a simulator evaluation and an interactive session with the Pilot Recruitment Team; and that licenses and the DGCA medical must be valid on the date of joining. No Captain track and no closing date were found. The SkyCadet page (https://www.akasaair.com/akasa-air-skycadet-programme), read in the Internet Archive’s 2026 copy, says applications are closed and gives the eligibility; Akasa’s release of 11 June 2026 launched the program with Skynex Aero and Dunes Aviation Academy, both on DGCA’s list of approved flying training organizations of 3 October 2026 (read directly), and said Akasa would continue to hire CPL holders and B737 type-rated pilots. Indian Aviation News reported Akasa hiring B737 MAX First Officers in August 2026; HR Katha (January 2026) and CAPA reported the pause in pilot recruitment from June 2024 and its end in December 2025; Akasa’s release of 4 July 2026 gave the 40th aircraft and the order book, and the Free Press Journal the 42nd (1 September 2026); Akasa announced Delhi as its third operational base on 17 October 2025; Business Standard (10 March 2026) reported the retention plan from an internal email to pilots. The previous check, on 14 October 2026, was also from search results.

• Researched on 17 October 2026 from the Internet Archive’s copies of Akasa Air’s careers and SkyCadet pages (2026), search-engine results, its press releases and aviation press; the live pages refused our requests. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether both First Officer routes are taking applications now: the live page refuses our requests, and the latest copy we could read is the Internet Archive’s of 18 April 2026, which gives no dates
• Type-rating funding terms: who pays for the 737 rating of pilots who join without one, and whether a training bond applies
• Whether Akasa hires Captains from outside: search results show no Captain track on its pilot page, and it has promoted its own First Officers to Captain since September 2023
• The right to work and nationality rules for licensed pilots, and any age limits: Akasa’s page, as search results show it, states none; a job-board profile asks for the legal right to live and work in India
• The SkyCadet fee, who pays it and the terms after training, which Akasa’s page does not publish, and the date of the next intake

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Cathay advertises three entry routes — the Cadet Pilot Programme (applications open year-round), Direct Entry Second Officer and Direct Entry First Officer — and its careers pages do not advertise direct-entry command. Search results on 21 September 2026 showed live postings for “First Officer (Direct Entry)” (job 30022) and the Cadet Pilot Programme (jobs 29631 / 31538), plus a “Second Officer (Direct Entry)” listing relayed on LinkedIn. In May 2026 Cathay said it planned to hire about 3,000 staff during the year, cadet pilots among them, and recent PPRuNe posters report quick replies to A321neo campaigns and interviews about three weeks later (our study-guide research, September 2026). Not read directly on the portal.

• Figures here come from Cathay’s adverts, careers FAQ and results releases, from candidate reports, and from search results of Cathay’s careers pages on 21 September 2026. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• The DEFO aircraft threshold: versions of the advert say above 45,000 kg or above 10,000 kg / more than 19 seats
• How work visas are handled, and whether any English level above ICAO 4 is preferred
• Whether the Second Officer direct-entry route is open at the moment
• Probation and bond terms (including for the sponsored cadet course), and whether a group exercise is part of the current campaign

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Hours minimums and whether non-type-rated First Officers are accepted
• Contract length and package

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 14 October 2026 from search-engine results, not opened (the sandbox cannot reach goindigo.in): IndiGo’s Flight Operations careers page lists Cadet Pilot Program, Type Rated Pilots (A320), Non Type Rated Pilots (A320) and Expat Pilots tracks and names six partner academies (Skyborne Airline Academy, Flight Training Adelaide, Insight Aviation, Chimes Aviation Academy, Garuda Aviation, Marigold); its criteria for line-released A320 First Officers ask for a DGCA CPL with an A320 endorsement and at least 200 h after line release, up to age 45. The indexed copy may be older than the live page. IndiGo’s Airbus Junior First Officer round of September 2024, run with CAE (afm.aero, 3 September 2024), asked for a DGCA CPL with a multi-engine instrument rating, 25 h multi-engine (no more than 10 in a simulator), age 18 to 40, Indian nationals or OCI cardholders, with a written test on 22 September 2024 and no A320 rating; IndiGo’s A320 Senior First Officer (Non Type Rated) postings on jobs.goindigo.in (October 2024) asked for a DGCA ATPL and 1,500 h. IndiGo’s How to become a Pilot page gives the cadet eligibility (18 to 32; 10+2 with physics and mathematics) and allows at most two attempts per selection stage. Skyborne publishes its IndiGo cadet selection in three eliminatory stages (aptitude, English and personality tests on the Symbiotics platform; a group discussion and a personal interview conducted by IndiGo; then a Letter of Intent), with its own age limit of 18 to 40, and reported a new IndiGo cadet class starting training in February 2026. We found no dated 2026 vacancy notice on IndiGo’s page.

• Researched on 14 October 2026 from search-engine results of IndiGo’s own careers pages (Flight Operations; How to become a Pilot; postings on jobs.goindigo.in), its partner academies’ pages, aviation press, job boards and preparation sites — not from a direct read of the portal; the indexed copy of the Flight Operations page may be older than the live page. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether IndiGo is running a Junior First Officer round in 2026, and whether it now asks for an A320 endorsement: the round of September 2024 did not, but the indexed copy of the Flight Operations page shows the endorsement next to an 18 to 40 age range and 25 h multi-engine, in a layout we could not read reliably
• Captain minimums: search summaries of IndiGo’s careers page give different total hours (3,000 h with 100 h as PIC after line release on the A320 family in one, other figures elsewhere) and age limits of 55 or 62, apparently by fleet (Airbus or ATR)
• The age limit of non-type-rated Senior First Officers (52 or 55 in different postings)
• The 1,500–2,500 h range for experienced direct entry that this record carried before 14 October 2026: not found on IndiGo’s own pages
• The selection stages for licensed pilots: IndiGo publishes none beyond the written test of its 2024 Junior First Officer round; the list comes from preparation guides (2026)

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read on 21 October 2026 through a GitHub runner (the sandbox cannot reach these sites): CAE Parc Aviation’s listing “B787 First Officers - Rated & Non-Type Rated” for Japan Airlines on aviationjobsearch.com (job 562198, shown as posted 16 days earlier, so about 5 October 2026, with an Apply button), which says CAE Parc is “exclusively accepting applications” and acts on behalf of JAL, with a 5-year contract with 10 consecutive days off a month, commuting only; and Aviation Wire’s article of 10 December 2025 (updated 12 December 2025), which reports the same campaign and terms and quotes JAL: CAE Parc handles the hiring, the campaign is for people living outside Japan, and an overseas agency employs the pilots and dispatches them to JAL. JAL’s own sites (the jal.com careers pages, jal.co.jp and press.jal.co.jp) refused the runner (HTTP 403), and CAE’s own job search loads its list by script, so the campaign could not be read on JAL’s or CAE’s own pages. Fleet from Aviation Wire, 8 June 2025 and 23 March 2026 (read directly). The previous check, on 21 September 2026, was from search results.

• Researched on 21 October 2026 without a read of JAL’s own careers pages, which refused our reader: from CAE Parc Aviation’s listing on a job board and the Japanese aviation press. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Who obtains the Japanese visa or status of residence for a contract pilot: neither the listing nor Aviation Wire says
• Japanese JCAB license conversion requirements and timeline for a foreign ATPL holder, or whether a validation is used instead
• The selection stages: CAE Parc’s listing does not describe them, and JAL’s own pages could not be read
• Pay: the listing says only “excellent pay package”; salary guides’ figures are not JAL’s
• The current terms of JAL’s recruitment of Japanese pilots, including its cadet route for new graduates, published in Japanese on JAL’s site, which we could not read

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Captain minimums, and whether holders of foreign licenses are considered
• Japanese-language requirement (Peach’s recruitment pages are in Japanese)
• Pilot Challenge application window and age limits

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Qantas Group’s own careers site (careers.qantas.com → Pilots and Flying Operations, with Qantas, QantasLink and Jetstar sub-pages) and its published PDF “QantasLink Direct Entry Officer Minimum Requirements” appeared in search results on 21 September 2026, with QantasLink recruiting Direct Entry First Officers. Mainline Qantas pilots are largely sourced from QantasLink/Network Aviation flow and the Qantas Group Pilot Academy. Not read directly on the portal. Re-checked on 5 October 2026 through search-engine copies of the careers site’s minimum-requirement PDFs (not a direct read of the portal): QantasLink Direct Entry First Officer 500 h total airplane time; National Jet Systems A220 First Officer and Network Aviation First Officer 500 h fixed-wing with extra conditions; Qantas Direct Entry Second Officer on PIC-time minimums. A search-engine copy of the Qantas mainline careers page said it was not accepting pilot applications. Read directly on 16 October 2026 (the QantasLink page of careers.qantas.com, fetched through the GitHub runner): “At this time, QantasLink is not accepting applications for pilot positions.” The page still publishes the QantasLink Direct Entry Officer minimum requirements: a CASA ATPL(A), or a CASA CPL(A) with passes in all Australian ATPL theory subjects; English Language Proficiency Level 6 on the license; Instrument Approach 2D and 3D endorsements on an Australian multi-engine airplane instrument rating, New Zealand applicants converting their license and ratings before applying; a current CASA Class 1; Australian citizenship or the right to work in Australia or New Zealand without restriction or sponsorship; drug and alcohol testing; eligibility for an Aviation Security Identification Card; a passport valid at least 12 months with unrestricted access to every country Qantas flies to; and 500 h total flight time in an airplane, with preference for 50 h flown in the previous 12 months. Its list of Group pilot roles showed a National Jet Systems A220 Simulator Instructor/Examiner vacancy in Melbourne and Network Aviation E190 Training and Checking Captain vacancies in Perth, permanent and 2-year fixed-term, the fixed-term ones with “sponsorship & relocation available”. Search-engine copies seen the same day that showed QantasLink recruiting, and job-board copies of its posting dated late April 2026, were out of date. The Qantas Group Pilot Academy FAQ (qantas.com), read directly the same day: run by Flight Training Adelaide at Toowoomba Wellcamp; the CPL, the multi-engine command instrument rating, the ATPL theory and MCC in a 55-week course on the DA40 and DA42; 18 to start the course (pre-selection from 17); no guaranteed job and no funded cadetships with Group airlines, graduates being invited to a Qantas Group Accelerate Assessment Centre for QantasLink, Jetstar or Network Aviation; Australian citizenship or permanent residency mandatory for the Group’s graduate assessment and employment. Read directly again on 23 October 2026 (pages downloaded for the fact-checker, tools/careers/src/uae-australia-2026-10-23/): the QantasLink page of careers.qantas.com still says “At this time, QantasLink is not accepting applications for pilot positions” and publishes the same Direct Entry Officer minimums; the Group’s Pilots and Flying Operations page lists, as its latest pilot opportunities, the National Jet Systems A220 Simulator Examiner vacancy in Melbourne and the two Network Aviation E190 Training and Checking Captain vacancies in Perth, permanent full-time and 2-year fixed-term (“sponsorship & relocation available”), and describes the Qantas Group Pilot Academy as self-funded training delivered through its partnership with FTA. The Network Aviation First Officer listing in Perth that job boards copied in June and July 2026 (careers.qantas.com/job/network-aviation-first-officer-in-perth-jid-508) now opens the careers site’s job search page, with no listing, so the First Officer seat stays “paused”.

• Read directly on 23 October 2026: the QantasLink page and the Pilots and Flying Operations page of careers.qantas.com (and, on 16 October 2026, the Qantas Group Pilot Academy FAQ). Researched on 21 September and 5 October 2026 from search-engine copies of the careers site’s requirement PDFs and job boards: the National Jet Systems, Network Aviation and Qantas Second Officer minimums, and the Qantas mainline status. Confirm the vacancy is open before you apply.
• Which of the National Jet Systems, Network Aviation and Qantas Second Officer lists are attached to an open vacancy today: on 23 October 2026 the Group’s pilot pages showed none of these First or Second Officer vacancies among their latest roles
• Whether Qantas mainline is taking external applications in late 2026: a search-engine copy of its careers page seen on 5 October 2026 said it was not accepting pilot applications
• The requirements of Network Aviation’s E190 Training and Checking Captain vacancies, and what the fixed-term ones’ sponsorship covers: only the listing’s summary was read
• Whether the type rating is bonded on any of the Group’s direct-entry routes

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

25 October 2026. Writer, from search-engine results only (careers.flyscoot.com and every job board refused the sandbox, HTTP 403): the Direct Entry First Officer 2026 (Singapore Assessment Centre) posting, Scoot requisition R0004820, in job boards’ copies (JSfirm job 1828267, AvianationJobs, AviationCV job 70796, PilotsGlobal “AC on Seniority”): more than 1,500 h total fixed-wing on airplanes of 5,700 kg or more, a CAAS-issued ICAO CPL(A) or ATPL(A) with a foreign ATPL converted (instrument rating and proficiency check valid for at least six months), ICAO English Level 4, CAAS vaccination requirements, online aptitude tests, an assessment center in Singapore and a two-day simulator and personality assessment; type rating training with a co-payment and a training bond. AviationCV also lists Direct Entry Captain 2026 (SG Assessment Centre, job 70795), Direct Entry A320 Captain 2026 (job 71288) and Direct Entry B787 Captain 2026 (job 72038), not seen on Scoot’s portal. Reviewer, the same day, from the runner’s downloads: careers.flyscoot.com did not download, AviationCV’s pages returned a bot check and JSfirm’s only the listing’s title (job 1828267, still served), so the posting’s terms and the status rest on search results; CAAS’s Airline Transport Pilot Licence and Foreign Pilot Licence Conversion pages (both updated 3 September 2026) and Scoot’s media release of 7 May 2026 (63 aircraft: 24 B787-8/-9, 30 A320 family, 9 E190-E2) were read in full. visaSponsored true → null: it rested only on PilotsGlobal’s “Visa sponsorship: Provided” tag, while the posting’s requirements say nothing and earlier Scoot postings asked for the right to work in Singapore. Replaces the record of 21 September 2026, whose “employment pass sponsored”, 50% B787 co-payment and Captain upgrade figures no source read today gives.

• Researched on 25 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the 2026 Direct Entry First Officer and Captain postings are still open on Scoot’s own portal, and their closing dates
• The co-payment share, the length of the training bond and the repayment terms (an earlier record gave a 50% co-payment for the B787 course, repaid over five years)
• Whether Scoot arranges an employment pass for a foreign pilot: the 2026 posting’s requirements, as job boards’ copies showed them, do not say
• The minimums of the 2026 Direct Entry Captain postings: job boards give about 3,500 h with 1,000 h in command for the A320 and the E190-E2, and more than 5,000 multi-crew hours with 2,000 in command for the B787, without dates
• A Second Officer route for the jet fleets from 200 h, listed by PilotsGlobal without a date and not seen on Scoot’s portal

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 16 October 2026 by a direct read (through the GitHub runner) of SIA’s pilots page (singaporeair.com/en_UK/sg/careers/cadet-pilots-career/) and of the postings Direct Entry First Officers (Contract) (careers.singaporeair.com job 57638444) and Direct Entry Captains (Contract) (57638244). The pilots page said “Online application is now open” for Ab Initio Cadet Pilot (Singapore), Direct Entry First Officer and Direct Entry Captain, and that applications for Direct Entry Second Officer were closed. Both direct-entry postings are for pilots holding an ATPL with an A350 or A380 rating, placed on the A350 or A380 fleet with the relevant training, on a fixed-term contract of up to 12 months, with stages that may include interviews, a simulator assessment and medical examinations; neither gives a posting or closing date, and neither mentions an employment pass. The cadet section lists an online application, a computer assessment test, interviews and a medical check-up, training at Singapore Flying College in Singapore and overseas, and service for the training and 7 years from appointment as First Officer; it states no age or nationality rule. SIA states it recruits directly, uses no agencies and asks no fee to process applications. Job boards relayed the First Officer posting from 11 July 2026 (search results).

• Read directly on 16 October 2026 on SIA’s pilots page and its two direct-entry postings; the Ab Initio Cadet Pilot posting itself (job 19586544) was not opened. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• The closing dates of the postings, which neither the pilots page nor the postings give
• Contract renewal terms beyond the first 12 months for direct-entry pilots
• Whether SIA arranges an employment pass for direct-entry pilots: the postings and the pilots page read on 16 October 2026 do not say (the record said “Employment pass sponsored for direct entry” from a search-based check on 21 September 2026)
• The cadet route’s nationality and age rules, which SIA’s pilots page does not state

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the 2026 window is still open
• Total-hours minimum

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Contract term, roster and pay for the 2026 streams
• Whether Vietnam Airlines, or its subsidiary VASCO, still flies the ATR 72: in July 2021 Vietnam Airlines planned to sell its six ATR 72s (Tuoi Tre News, 15 July 2021, as indexed on 22 October 2026), and no later source was found, so the type is left out of the fleet until it is confirmed

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read on 17 October 2026 through a GitHub runner (the sandbox could not reach the site). “Expression of Interest – First Officer, Turboprop Fleet” (jid-149): an NZCAA CPL/ATPL (an NZCAA ATPL or all ATPL subjects passed preferred), an NZCAA MEIR and Class 1, 500 h total time, 25 h night and 40 h instrument flight time, NZCAA BTK/BGT, L6 English language proficiency, a New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or resident or an Australian citizen, able to travel overseas; a strong pool of applicants and a process that can take some time; the requirements met before an offer, with a foreign license converted after Aspeq’s initial assessment, whose letter is needed before an interview; no University Entrance line, which older copies listed. “Expression of Interest – Jet Fleet Pilot” (jid-171): Second Officer B787/B777 or First Officer A320/A321 under the Regional Pilot Priority Process (up to 10% of new jet pilots from outside in normal circumstances), the external criteria, an NZCAA ATPL or a CPL with current passes in all ATPL subjects, a MEIR, a Class 1, 1,500 h total including 100 h multi-engine, 100 h ATO (exceptions for military applicants), 40 h instrument and 25 h night, BTK/BGT, L6 English, the eight-year exclusion, the two seniority lists and five stages; no closing date shown. The pilot careers page (careers.airnewzealand.co.nz/pilots): both sets of minimums, a current NZCAA or CASA instrument rating for turboprop entry, the citizenship lines, Police and Aviation Security vetting, the minimum age (a current CPL, issued from 18), the same recruitment process for every pilot, and the type rating after joining. The cadetship site (pilotcadetship.airnewzealand.co.nz): applications closed, another cadetship being developed. The fleet page (airnewzealand.co.nz/fleet), at 30 April 2026. From search results only: the CAA’s pages (Part 61, TTMRA, Class Exemption 26 EXE 49, the cadet scheme), the cadetship’s 2024 terms (Air New Zealand’s releases, Ansett Aviation Training), Aviation A2Z (7 August 2026), a ZipRecruiter copy of jid-171 posted on 10 October 2026, and the 787 delivery change of 30 June 2026. The previous check, on 21 September 2026, was from search results, and its “about 2,500 h” came from industry guides, not from Air New Zealand.

• Read directly on 17 October 2026, through a GitHub runner: Air New Zealand’s pilot careers page, its two expressions of interest, the cadetship site and the fleet page. Researched on 17 October 2026 from search-engine results: the CAA’s rules, the cadetship’s 2024 terms and the press reports quoted on this page. Confirm the expression of interest is still open before you apply.
• How long an expression of interest stays under consideration, and how often turboprop courses are filled from it: the turboprop one says only that Air New Zealand has a strong pool of applicants and that an application may remain under consideration for some time
• What the jet expression of interest’s “100 hours ATO” counts: job-board copies read it as air transport operations, one as time with an approved training organization; Air New Zealand says only that it does not apply to military applicants
• Which bases take new turboprop First Officers: the expression of interest says only “a number of bases around the country”
• When the next cadetship opens and on what terms: Air New Zealand says it is developing one, with details still being confirmed; the 2024 terms (cadets funding about 20 to 30% of the cost through a bank loan, given as $53,500 by a training partner without naming the currency, and part repayment for a cadet who turned down an offer or left within five years) came from the launch and that partner
• Pay, and any bond for the type rating, for direct-entry pilots, which Air New Zealand does not publish

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether non-rated pilots are considered

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 21 October 2026 through a GitHub runner (the sandbox cannot reach the site) on kal-ccl.com, the site of CCL Aviation, which calls itself the official recruitment agency for Korean Air and says it manages the contracts of close to half of Korean Air’s expatriate pilots: the home page (update “As of 2026.09.07”: MOLIT “is due to resume issuing work permits soon”; “We are seeking: B777, B787 & A330 Captains! Korean Air are reviewing applications in anticipation of resumed recruitment in 2026”), the Vacancies page (note of 23 December 2025: applications on hold while MOLIT reviews the work-permit process, with a holding group; B787, B777 and A330 Captain vacancies; B747-400 and A380 Captain vacancies marked “Not Active”), the Apply page (minimum requirements, the 50% conversion of First Officer time on type, recency, age, English, “Current opportunities for type rated candidates only. We have ceased processing NTR applications at this time.”, “All First officer recruitment has been canceled and is unlikely to return.”, Russian and Thai ATPL holders), the Interviews page (“No Interviews at the moment”; the procedure and the four-day screening in Seoul), the Benefits and About pages. Korean Air’s own recruitment site (koreanair.recruiter.co.kr), which posts its hiring of Korean pilots in Korean, loads its list by script and could not be read. Fleet from Korean Air’s 2026 ESG report (June 2026, in Korean; fleet table read directly), the Boeing order from Boeing’s release of 16 September 2026 (read directly), and the Asiana merger from Korea JoongAng Daily, 13 May 2026 (read directly). The previous check, on 21 September 2026, was from search results. Reviewed on 21 October 2026 against the same runner logs: the record counts as indexed, not read on the airline’s site, because kal-ccl.com is the agency’s site and Korean Air’s own pages were not read; CCL’s “close to 50%” and its remark that it has provided more successful applicants than “any other agency” mean other agencies also recruit for Korean Air.

• Researched on 21 October 2026 without a read of Korean Air’s own pages: from the site of CCL Aviation, one of the agencies that recruit Korean Air’s expatriate pilots. Korean Air’s own recruitment site, where it posts its requirements and routes for Korean pilots in Korean, loads by script and could not be read, and the other agencies’ pages were not read.
• When MOLIT resumes issuing work permits and Korean Air resumes recruiting: CCL said on 7 September 2026 that it was “due to resume soon”, and its Interviews page listed no screening dates on 21 October 2026
• Whether Korean Air or CCL obtains the MOLIT work permit, and what a non-Korean pilot must provide for it
• Pay: CCL calls the salaries excellent and tax paid but publishes no figure; salary guides’ figures are not Korean Air’s
• Whether the Asiana merger of 17 December 2026 will change expatriate recruitment, bases or the fleets that recruit
• What the simulator check and the interview of the Seoul screening contain: CCL briefs selected candidates but does not publish them

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026, and re-checked on 12 October 2026, from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether MAG takes experienced direct-entry pilots outside cadet windows

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Which group AOC is recruiting and whether expatriates are eligible
• Whether the cadet intake is open

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the relayed vacancy is live
• Expatriate eligibility

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Which types are open now and through which agency

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether recruitment is open now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Hours and license minimums — job boards relay a frozen ICAO ATPL with ME/IR acceptable to the HKCAD and 1,000 h or 1,500 h for non-rated First Officers; the figures disagree and were not confirmed on HK Express’s own pages
• Whether the standing postings are accepting applications, and whether a 2026 roadshow is planned
• Right to work, medical and type-rating bond terms

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the direct-entry postings are open, and their hours minimums
• Cadet program intake dates and cost

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the relayed vacancies are live
• Age limits and degree requirements

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the relayed postings are live
• Who the recruiting agency is

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read on 19 October 2026 on Virgin Australia’s own pilot jobs page (virginaustralia.com/au/en/about-us/careers/pilot-jobs/), fetched through a GitHub runner because the sandbox cannot reach the site: the B737 First Officer requirements and the three 500-hour options, the recruitment process, and the FAQ (work rights, the five bases, the Brisbane assessment center, the 12-month wait to reapply, paid training, relocation at your own expense, pay under the narrow-body pilots’ enterprise agreement). On 19 October the careers site that holds the listings (careers.virginaustralia.com) was not read: search results on 19 October 2026 show a “Commercial Pilot” listing (job 507147) inviting expressions of interest for B737 First Officers, an older “First Officer – Boeing 737” listing (506500), and undated Virgin Australia Regional Airlines listings for E190-E2 First Officers (508805), Training First Officers (509109), an initial training program (509007) and direct-entry E190-E2 Training (508898) and Check Captains (508897). Fleet from Virgin Australia’s release of 13 June 2026 (read directly) and its fleet page as search results show it (copy of 24 June 2026). The previous check, on 21 September 2026, was from search results; its COMPASS stage at Aviation Australia came from preparation sites, not from Virgin Australia. Re-checked on 20 October 2026 by the reviewer, through the runner: the pilot jobs page, unchanged from 19 October; the application its Apply now button opens (PageUp, job 507147), which said “This opportunity is now closed for applications. Applications for the First Officer - Boeing 737 - New position are no longer being accepted. The role was closed on 1 Aug 2024”; the careers site’s listing of 41 jobs, none of them for pilots (its one Flight Operations job an Operations Schedule Integration Specialist in Brisbane); listings 507147, 508805, 509109, 508897 and 509007, which returned “not found” (HTTP 404); and the fleet page (current at 24 June 2026: 19 737-8s, 74 737-800s, 9 737-700s and 5 E190-E2s). CASA’s exam and instrument approach pages were checked in search results. The reports of a COMPASS stage come from preparation pages of March 2024 or undated ones.

• Whether Virgin Australia is taking pilot applications now: its pilot jobs page says it is actively recruiting, but on 20 October 2026 the application its Apply now button opens was closed, and its careers site listed no pilot role, B737 or E190-E2
• What the assessment center contains beyond what the pilot jobs page says: preparation and careers sites, one dated March 2024 and the others undated, report the COMPASS aptitude battery and a simulator session run by Aviation Australia in Brisbane, which Virgin Australia’s page does not name
• Who pays for the B737 type rating and whether a training bond applies; the page says only that paid employment starts on the first day of training
• Starting pay: the pilot jobs page refers to the Narrow Body Aircraft Pilots’ Enterprise Agreement 2021, while a 2024 agreement of the same name appears in search results; salary guides’ figures are not Virgin Australia’s
• Whether the Virgin Australia Pilot Cadetship still runs: the latest intake we found in press reports is its relaunch with Flight Training Adelaide in October 2017, with 2018 recruiting, and a flight school’s article of about 2023 said the ab-initio cadetship was no longer offered (search results, 16 October 2026)
• The requirements of Virgin Australia Regional Airlines’ E190-E2 First Officer and direct-entry Training and Check Captain listings, which we could not read

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 22 October 2026 through the GitHub runner: Jetstar’s page on the Qantas Group careers site (careers.qantas.com/teams/pilots-flying-operations/jetstar/) says “At this time, Jetstar is not accepting applications for pilot positions” and gives the Jetstar Airways Direct Entry First Officer A320-1 minimums in two lists, for Australia and for New Zealand: an Australian ATPL(A), or an Australian CPL(A) with passes in all Australian ATPL theory subjects (Australian or New Zealand subjects in the New Zealand list); an Australian multi-engine airplane instrument rating with 2D and 3D endorsements; a current CASA Class 1 medical; ICAO English Language Proficiency Level 6; a passport valid for at least 12 months with unrestricted access to all Jetstar ports of call; experience in a multi-crew operation or a completed multi-crew cooperation course (an MCC training certificate or equivalent in the New Zealand list); a pre-employment medical and a drug and alcohol test; the ability to hold an ASIC (an ASIC and/or AVSEC in the New Zealand list); and to hold, or be eligible to hold, Australian permanent residency status or an unrestricted right to work in Australia. A note says a current New Zealand ATPL or CPL with a multi-engine airplane instrument rating can be converted under the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act before employment. Hour requirements: 500 hours in fixed-wing aircraft and at least one of 200 hours in command of a multi-engine aircraft (excluding PICUS), 200 hours in command of a turbine fixed-wing aircraft or 200 hours on aircraft certified for a crew of two pilots. The runner’s download of the minimum-requirements PDF’s address returned the same careers page, so the PDF itself was not read. Also read through the runner: the Qantas Group FY26 results release (27 August 2026). From search-engine results on 22 October 2026 (the sandbox could not reach careers.jetstar.com): Jetstar’s own pilot careers page shows the same status line and hours; older Jetstar documents on qantas.com, career.jetstar.com and a February 2022 posting give 1,500 hours for the A320 First Officer and B787 Second Officer; Jetstar’s undated FAQ for Australian and New Zealand applicants (qantas.com) says Jetstar does not sponsor A320 First Officers or B787 Second Officers and that every candidate completes a simulator assessment. The last dated listing was Jetstar New Zealand’s, for non-rated A320 First Officers based in Auckland (job boards, 22 February and 11 April 2025, closed). Fleet also from the Qantas Group half-year fleet table (February 2026) and CAPA (3 August 2026), both from search results. Earlier checks: 21 September and 16 October 2026, from search results.

• Read on 22 October 2026 on Jetstar’s page on the Qantas Group careers site, downloaded through the GitHub runner (the status line and the Direct Entry First Officer minimums); Jetstar’s own careers site, its FAQ, its older documents, the job boards and the aviation press were read in search-engine results, as on 21 September and 16 October 2026. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• When Jetstar reopens direct-entry applications
• The hours figure when it reopens: the careers page gives 500 hours with one of three 200-hour options, but older Jetstar documents for the A320 First Officer and B787 Second Officer gave 1,500 hours total, 500 hours multi-engine as pilot in command or First Officer and 250 hours in command (up to 150 of them PICUS), and neither is dated
• The selection stages: a summary of Jetstar’s undated FAQ named psychometric testing and a telephone interview before the assessment center and the simulator assessment, which we could not confirm
• Who pays for the A320 type rating and when pay starts: the 2025 New Zealand listing says training is provided, and the undated FAQ says an A320 First Officer’s salary begins on the first day of induction after the type rating
• Bonds and pay: the undated FAQ says Australian-based pilots are not bonded and start on the level 1 salary for four years, and that New Zealand-based pilots are bonded for three years; we could not confirm that these terms are current

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Re-checked on 21 October 2026 from search-engine results (WebSearch) of Airlink’s own pilot careers page (flyairlink.com/pilot-careers) and its “Airlink Connect: your questions answered” sheet (flyairlink.com, AIRLINK-CONNECTv3.3.pdf); neither could be opened from the writing sandbox, and the GitHub-runner fetch could not be dispatched. As indexed, the careers page lists a Cadet First Officer stream (minimum 200 h) and a Connect First Officer stream (minimum 500 h), both asking for a valid ME IR CPL, a Grade 12 certificate and South African citizenship; a First Officer post based in Johannesburg whose posting expires on 31 December 2026, from 1,000 h total with 200 h multi-engine and 200 h turbine, on a SACAA CPL, ATPL or frozen ATPL with a valid instrument rating, with a Grade 12 certificate and South African citizenship (“Must be a South African Citizen”); and an Accelerated Command post at O.R. Tambo whose posting also expires on 31 December 2026, and a Direct Entry Command stream, both from 5,000 h total with 2,000 h on medium aircraft and a valid ATPL, Direct Entry Command also asking 500 h in command of a medium jet. Search summaries did not settle whether the Cadet and Connect streams belong to the Johannesburg First Officer post. Airlink Connect lets a pilot apply before meeting Airlink’s minimum experience; one who falls short is referred to Airlink’s training partner, PTC Aviation. A job board’s copy of a Connect First Officer listing (bestpilotjobs.com) gave 1,000 h with 200 h multi-engine and 200 h turbine instead of 500 h. Airlink warns that it advertises only on its own website and JobMail. The fact-check of the same day, also from search-engine results, added the experienced First Officer stream’s citizenship line and frozen ATPL and the Accelerated Command post. The previous check, on 29 September 2026, was also from search-engine results.

• Researched on 21 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers page and its Airlink Connect sheet — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• The Connect First Officer minimum: Airlink’s careers page, as indexed, says 500 h; a job board’s copy of the listing says 1,000 h with 200 h multi-engine and 200 h turbine
• Right-to-work wording for the command streams
• Type rating and bond terms
• Whether a Captain seat is open: the Accelerated Command post was listed, but whether it hires into the Captain seat, and whether a Direct Entry Command vacancy is open, was not established
• The length and cost of the Airlink Connect course with PTC Aviation

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read on Ethiopian’s own site on 16 October 2026: corporate.ethiopianairlines.com/AboutEthiopian/careers/vacancies (page 1: Ethiopian Aviation University adjunct-professor postings only), /vacancies/2 and /vacancies/3 (the same content: under “International Job Openings” the Expat Captain A350, B777/787 and B737 postings, each “Location: via Email Expatrecruitment@ethiopianairlines.com”, registration and closing dates “Open”, with their requirements, documents, application form, screening and package; under “Local Job Openings” university teaching posts). No B757/767 and no First Officer posting on pages 1 to 3. Read in search-engine results on 16 October 2026: job-board copies of the Captain postings (All Flying Jobs, dated 26 June 2026 for the B737 and 18 July 2026 for the A350, B777/787 and B767; AviationCV, PilotsGlobal, FlightDeckFriend, Pilot Career Center, which give Addis Ababa as the base), PilotsGlobal’s copy of the non-rated B737NG First Officer advert, marked closed and undated; Ethiopian’s press release on the January 2026 graduation of Ethiopian Aviation University; Boeing’s releases of 20 January and 30 September 2026; the group’s 2025/26 results (29 July 2026). The previous check, on 21 September 2026, recorded Captain campaigns on the A350, B777/787, B737 and B767 and the First Officer advert as live.

• Read on Ethiopian’s vacancies pages on 16 October 2026: the three Expat Captain postings. Researched on 16 October 2026 from search-engine results and job boards: the B757/767 Captain posting, the non-rated First Officer advert, the fleet and the training figures. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether Ethiopian still recruits B757/767 Captains: that posting appears only in job-board copies (the latest dated 18 July 2026), not on Ethiopian’s pages on 16 October 2026
• Whether Ethiopian still runs a non-rated First Officer stream: the B737NG First Officer advert (1,500 h, type rating provided, a maximum age of 55) appears only in undated job-board copies marked closed, and Ethiopian’s pages listed no First Officer posting on 16 October 2026
• Contract length and pay: the postings name a long-term contract and the allowances but give no figures
• What the two-day assessment in Addis Ababa includes: Ethiopian does not publish its stages
• Who obtains the work permit and residence papers, and whether an expat Captain needs an Ethiopian license or a validation of a foreign one: the postings ask only for the license authentication letter, and we could not read the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority’s rules

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether direct applications to RAM (outside the agencies) are open for expatriates
• B787 First Officer hours minimum

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Hours, type and nationality requirements

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether an intake is open now

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Search results of 21 October 2026 (the portal itself was not read) show the careers portal’s “First Officer” listing (Permanent, Operations division, Nairobi) with “Job Expiry: Expired” and an expiry date of 31 December 2025. Job-board copies of the posting carry its text: MyJobMag’s of April, July and November 2025 (deadline 31 December 2025), Opportunities for Young Kenyans (end date 31 December 2025) and Fuzu (closed 5 May 2025). The November 2025 copy gives 200 h to be invited to interview and 250 h for employment, both excluding simulator hours; Kenyan citizens; a valid KCAA CPL or ATPL with instrument, multi-engine, Performance A and gas turbine ratings; a Class 1 medical; KCAA English proficiency Level 4 or above; a KCSE mean grade of C- with at least C- in Mathematics, English and Physics or General Science; and a minimum height of 160 cm. MyJobMag’s list of Kenya Airways openings of 21 September 2026 had no pilot role. The listing seen at the previous check, on 29 September 2026, whose expiry date did not show then, appears to be the same one. Fleet: the 777-300ER’s return from a lease to Turkish Airlines, on Nairobi–London Heathrow from 17 July 2026 (CAPA; The Star, 24 June 2026; People Daily); four 737 freighters (Aviation Week, 2026); engine turnaround times of 90 to 120 days limiting fleet availability in the first half of 2026 (half-year results of 25 August 2026, as Aviation Week and Kenyan press reported them). Ab initio pilot trainee program suspended indefinitely in June 2020 (Business Daily, reporting a High Court ruling of October 2022). Fact-checked the same day, also from search results: the portal listing’s indexed text gives the 200 h interview and 250 h employment thresholds, the KCAA CPL/ATPL, Kenyan citizenship and the 160 cm height; the Second Officer postings of 2024 (MyJobMag copies) listed an E190 or B737NG rating as an added advantage and said “A 2-year bond will apply for the type rating course”; KCAA’s 2026 examination timetable (AIC 02/26) lists sittings of a “TTR, Performance A & Basic Gas Turbines” paper; no Kenya Airways pilot listing with a 2026 deadline was found.

• Researched on 21 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers portal, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a First Officer listing is open now: the last one we found on the careers portal expired on 31 December 2025, and we found no newer pilot listing
• Which type a new First Officer flies first, who pays for the type rating, and whether the two-year bond on the type rating course that the 2024 Second Officer postings named still applies
• What the interview includes, and whether a simulator or aptitude assessment comes with it: the postings we found name only the interview, and a press article of September 2026 that describes aptitude, psychometric and technical tests cites no Kenya Airways source
• Age limits, which the postings we found do not state
• Captain recruitment: an undated job-board copy of a Captain posting for the E-Jet, 737NG, 737 freighter and 787 asked for 3,500 h on commercial jets; we could not date it or find it on the careers portal

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

Read directly on 23 October 2026, in downloads made through the GitHub runner (tools/careers/src/saa-porter-2026-10-23/). SAA’s “Direct Flight to your Career” page sets the minimum entry requirements for pilots: a Matriculation Certificate, Grade 12, N3 or an equivalent SAQA-accredited qualification, with Mathematics or Statistics 101 and English, and Physical Science or Computer Science (each at a D symbol on the higher grade or a C on the standard grade); a valid South African Air Transport Pilot’s Licence (frozen ATPL) with a multi-engine instrument rating; a valid Class 1 medical; at least 1,500 flying hours, 200 of them on multi-engine aircraft; and South African citizenship; with a CV giving the aviation training and career history and the hours on each type flown, and certified copies of the last logbook page, the South African ID, the pilot license, the matric certificate, other educational certificates and a passport photograph. The page carries no date and no vacancy. SAA’s “Let’s talk about talent” page says its career website is under construction, with a new site launching soon. SAA’s Youth Development page describes the Cadet Pilot Development Programme as a bursary toward a frozen ATPL, after which cadets seek work in aviation to gain flying experience before they may apply to SAA; it guarantees no job at SAA; applicants need a matric certificate, N3 or a relevant tertiary qualification, with Mathematics or Statistics 101, Physical Science and English, South African citizenship and a willingness to relocate, pass five selection phases (pre-screening, psychometric testing, a medical examination, an assessment and panel interviews) and sign a training bond; the page gives no intake dates. Job boards’ copies of SAA First Officer listings, read the same day: MyJobMag, “First Officer - Kempton Park”, posted 15 January 2024, no deadline; MyJobMag, posted 9 July 2025, deadline 17 July 2025; MyJobMag, “Flight Operations”, a First Officer listing posted 27 October 2025, deadline 29 October 2025; MyJobMag, posted 3 November 2025, no deadline; and Gauteng.net’s article of 3 July 2025 (updated 12 March 2026), which gives SAA’s reference SAA231220-1, the December 2023 listing on SAA’s e-recruitment site that the checks of 21 September and 21 October 2026 found: the dates are the boards’ own, and some copies may be of that listing rather than of new ones. The copies describe the role as the P2 seat (second pilot) or the P3 seat (cruise relief pilot); ask for a South African ATPL, or a CPL with all the ATPL ground subjects completed (“previously known as a Frozen ATPL”), with the full ATPL and a multi-engine instrument rating to be obtained within four years of joining (two years in the January 2024 copy), a Class 1 medical, 1,500 flying hours with 200 on multi-engine aircraft, South African citizenship and a valid passport; list the papers (matric results, training records, hours by type, certified copies of the last three logbook pages, the logbook summary, the license and the Class 1 certificate); name simulator, written and psychometric tests and criminal, credit, reference and qualification checks among the pre-employment assessments; and, in all but the July 2025 MyJobMag copy, give preference to female applicants under SAA’s Pilot Employment Equity Plan. No pilot listing dated 2026 was found. Seen only in search-engine results: PilotsGlobal’s copy of an SAA First Officer listing (1,500 h total, 200 h multi-engine, ICAO English Level 4, no type rating required and training provided); the cadet intake announcements of 2013 (the newest, applications in October 2013 for the 2014 intake); and AFM’s report of August 2026 that SAA’s fleet had grown to 19 aircraft in April 2026, 15 of the A320 family, two A330-300s and two A340-300s. ch-aviation, 10 December 2025 (read directly): an in-house fleet of 18 aircraft, 14 leased A320-200s, two leased A330-300s and two owned A340-300s, beside wet-leased aircraft; SAA plans 28 new-generation aircraft for delivery from 2032, up to 16 wide-bodies for long-haul routes and 12 narrow-bodies to replace the A320-200s as their leases expire; its network is built around Johannesburg O.R. Tambo, with Cape Town second. The previous check, on 21 October 2026, was from search-engine results.

• Read directly on 23 October 2026: SAA’s careers pages (Direct Flight to your Career, Youth Development, Let’s talk about talent) and job boards’ copies of its First Officer listings (MyJobMag, Gauteng.net). From search-engine results only: PilotsGlobal’s copy of a listing, the 2013 cadet intakes and AFM’s 2026 fleet figure. Confirm a vacancy is open before you apply.
• Whether SAA is recruiting pilots: the newest First Officer listings found are job boards’ copies dated July to November 2025, none from 2026, one of them carrying the reference of SAA’s December 2023 listing, and SAA’s careers website says it is under construction
• When the requirements on SAA’s careers page were last updated: the page is undated
• Whether the Cadet Pilot Development Programme is taking a 2026 or 2027 intake
• How long a new First Officer has to obtain the full ATPL: four years in most job boards’ copies of the listings, two in one
• Whether SAA provides the type rating and asks for ICAO English Level 4: both come only from PilotsGlobal’s copy of a First Officer listing, seen in search results

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Visa or work-permit terms for foreign pilots
• Type rating and bond terms for non-rated First Officers

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the selection windows are open now or on the talent bank only

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 29 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Crew base for the posting
• Captain vacancies
• Any non-rated First Officer route

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• When the next dated selection opens

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Current openings and hours minimums

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the relayed posting is live
• Expatriate eligibility

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

25 October 2026. Writer, from search-engine results only (latamairlines.com refused the sandbox, HTTP 403): LATAM’s “Commercial Pilot” page (latamairlines.com → Work with us → Recruitment and selection → Pilots, also /mx/es/trabaja-con-nosotros/reclutamiento-y-seleccion/pilotos) appeared in results without its requirements; no LATAM call found for Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador or Paraguay, and no cadet intake. Reviewer, the same day, from the full texts the runner downloaded (LATAM’s own pages did not download): the LATAM Brasil copilot talent pool announced on 27 May 2026, applications until 21:59 on 7 June 2026 through the Trabalhe Conosco page of latam.com (LATAM Brasil’s announcement as Visite Brasília published it on 31 May 2026; Transporte Moderno and Fato Paulista, 27 May 2026): Brazilian-born or naturalized, commercial pilot license (airplane), IFRA rating, 150 h total, CCT de PLA, ICAO 4 or higher, first-class CMA, degree, Brazilian passport; differentials a US B1/B2 visa and recent experience or a valid rating on the A320 or E-Jets. The E195-E2 call of 15 December 2025 to 4 January 2026 (CNN Brasil, Panrotas, InfoMoney, Poder360, Aviacionline): copilots 500 h total on airplanes, IFRA and MLTE or type rating, CCT de PLA, ICAO 4, first-class CMA, degree, Brazilian passport; Captains 5,000 h on regular airlines (RBAC 121 or similar), 3,000 on jets, 500 as PIC on aircraft the size of the E2 or larger, degree a differential; both a valid E-Jet E1/E2 rating or E-Jet experience in the last three years (CNN Brasil’s list and Aviacionline; Panrotas’s summary omits it, Poder360 calls recent jet experience a differential); one-time bonuses of BRL 160,000 and 80,000; 54 E195-E2 pilots, 31 Captains and 23 copilots, hired by 28 April 2026 (Panrotas). The June 2025 call for about 160 pilots at Congonhas and Guarulhos, applications 10 to 20 June 2025: copilots 150 h on airplanes, degree, IFRA and MLTE or type, CCT de PLA (Panrotas, Aviación al Día, Meionews). Fleet: LATAM’s own description in the May 2026 announcement (Boeing 767, 777, 787; Airbus A319, A320, A320neo, A321, A321neo; no A350) and its fleet update of 6 July 2026 as CAPA reported it; the A350s retired in 2021 (ch-aviation, in search results). Chile: DGAC DAN 61, 61.601 and 61.607(a). Replaces the record of 21 September 2026, whose LATAM Brazil “1,000 h with a degree or 1,500 h without” no LATAM call we found gives, and whose “A350-900 (returning)” is not in LATAM’s fleet.

• Researched on 25 October 2026 from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages and from the full text of Brazilian press reports of LATAM Brasil’s calls — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Which affiliates have open vacancies now
• The text of LATAM’s own pilots pages and of LATAM Brasil’s Trabalhe Conosco postings: the Brasil figures are as the Brazilian press reported them
• The requirements of LATAM Airlines Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Paraguay: we found no call of theirs with its minimums
• Whether any affiliate runs a Pilot Cadet program now, and on what terms
• Who pays for the type rating, and whether it is bonded

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.

• Researched on 21 September 2026 (the type-rating question re-checked on 13 October 2026) from search-engine results of the airline’s own careers pages, job postings and industry job boards — not from a direct read of the portal. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether the relayed posting is live
• Whether Volaris runs a non-type-rated First Officer stream: industry guides and a closed, undated job-board listing (Flightdeck Friend, “Volaris A320 Rated & Non-Rated Captains & First Officers”) describe one, while a pilot-careers guide updated in March 2026 says Volaris typically requires the A320 type rating before joining; no Volaris-published non-rated posting was found

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts.