Enter Air Pilot Requirements 2026: Hours, License and Hiring Process

Enter Air, which calls itself the largest charter airline in Poland, flies only Boeing 737s, 737-800s and 737 MAX 8s, and offers its First Officers a base in Poland: Warsaw, Katowice, Poznań, Wrocław or Gdańsk. It has two doors. Low-hours First Officers need 200 hours of total flight time, a CPL with a frozen ATPL, an IR/ME rating and an MCC certificate, a Class 1 medical and English at ICAO Level 4, and Enter Air trains them for the B737 type rating in Warsaw under a training agreement, with a long-term contract; it does not publish what the agreement costs or whether a bond applies. Captains need an EASA ATPL, a B737 command rating, 3,000 hours, 1,000 of them on the 737, and the citizenship of an EU country. At the last check, on 13 November 2026, Enter Air’s cockpit crew page listed both offers as current: First Officers with recruitment in October 2026 and line training by May 2027, and Captains recruited until December 2026 for a conversion course from 4 January 2027.

Is Enter Air hiring pilots now?

Recruiting at the last check on 13 November 2026 — First Officer seat: Recruiting; Captain seat: Recruiting. Low-hours B737 First Officers from 200 h with a CPL, frozen ATPL, IR/ME and MCC, trained for the B737 rating in Warsaw (recruitment October 2026, line training to May 2027); Captains from 3,000 h with 1,000 h on the 737 and EU citizenship, recruited until December 2026 for a conversion course from 4 January 2027

Requirements, as published

Reading the requirements line by line

We read Enter Air’s cockpit crew page and its Captain offer, in English and in Polish, on 13 November 2026, and Europe’s aircrew rules in EASA’s own text. Read each line with what it counts in mind:

• 200 hours of total flight time. The First Officer offer counts total time, not multi-pilot or turbine time. Before any first type rating on a multi-pilot airplane, Europe’s aircrew rules also ask for 70 hours as pilot in command in airplanes (FCL.720.A(b)).
• A frozen ATPL. A CPL with the ATPL theory passed. The full ATPL(A) follows at 1,500 hours of flight time in airplanes, 500 of them in multi-pilot operations, with 200 hours cross-country, 75 of instrument time and 100 at night (FCL.510.A), so a 200-hour joiner flies as First Officer on the CPL until then.
• IR/ME, MCC and the UPRT course. The multi-engine instrument rating and the MCC certificate, theory and practical training, are what a first multi-pilot type rating needs: before the course, FCL.720.A(b) asks for a multi-engine IR held or once held, the ATPL theory passed, an MCC certificate unless the course is combined with one, and, with few exceptions, the advanced UPRT course of FCL.745.A. The offer does not mention that course, so if your training did not include it, ask Enter Air whether its training covers it.
• English at Level 4, Captains perhaps Level 5. The First Officer offer asks for ICAO Level 4, the minimum EASA allows (FCL.055); a Level 4 endorsement is re-evaluated every four years and Level 5 every six, while Level 6 needs no further evaluation. The Captain offer asks for Level 4 in its English version and Level 5 in its Polish one, so a Captain with Level 4 should ask which applies.
• A Class 1 medical. Valid for 12 months, and for 6 months from the age of 60 (MED.A.045); the Library’s medical certification explains the first issue at an aero-medical center.
• The training agreement. Enter Air offers First Officers B737 type-rating training in Warsaw, a training agreement, a long-term contract and an attractive salary package, but does not publish what the agreement costs the pilot or commits them to. Ask for its terms in writing before you sign.
• Captains. A valid EASA ATPL, a B737 command (CPT) rating, 3,000 hours in total and 1,000 on the 737, which the Polish version of the offer counts as time in command, and the citizenship of an EU country. Captains are offered a base at the five First Officer bases or Kraków, a long-term contract, a fast career path to line training captain, type rating instructor and examiner, guaranteed days off and loss-of-license insurance, and, in the Polish version, full-time or part-time (50% or 75%) work.

Entry routes

• First Officer B737 (low hours): CPL with frozen ATPL, IR/ME and MCC, 200 h total; recruitment October 2026, theory November to December 2026, simulator January to March 2027, line training March to May 2027, under a training agreement with a long-term contract
• Captain B737 NG and MAX: EASA ATPL, a B737 command rating, 3,000 h total with 1,000 h on the 737, EU citizenship; recruitment in Warsaw from September to December 2026, conversion course from 4 January 2027; full time or part time (50% or 75%) in the Polish version of the offer
• Seasonal B737 Captains through the crew agency Rishworth Aviation (type-rated)

Enter Air beside the other 737 airlines in Poland, and its European neighbors

Enter Air beside the airlines it is compared with on our jobs board, as recorded at each airline’s last check:

Read each row with its date. Three other airlines on the board fly 737s from Polish bases. LOT Polish Airlines, the flag carrier, flies 737 MAX 8s from Warsaw, and job boards’ copies of its First Officer postings also start at 200 hours, in rated and non-rated streams, though none was both dated and open at its last check (30 October 2026). Smartwings, the Czech 737 airline, lists Katowice and Warsaw among its Captain bases, “based on current needs”, and was recruiting type-rated Captains at its last check (6 November 2026). Ryanair’s Buzz has bases across Poland, and Ryanair was recruiting First Officers from 700 hours and Captains at its last check (12 October 2026), with a cadet program below 700 hours. Further west, Air France, easyJet and KLM give the wider comparison.

Selection process

1. Online application (the five stages as search results showed Enter Air’s recruitment portal, pilot-career.enterair.pl, on 13 November 2026; the portal could not be downloaded)
2. Exams in English and aviation theory (search results)
3. Interview with instructors (search results)
4. Simulator assessment (search results)
5. Psychological assessment (search results)

The 2026 to 2027 courses, month by month

Enter Air recruits in cycles. Its Captain offer of autumn 2025 ran its recruitment from October to December 2025, took applications until 28 November 2025 and started its conversion course on 5 January 2026. The offers on its cockpit crew page on 13 November 2026 run as follows:

• First Officers: recruitment in October 2026; theoretical training in November and December 2026; simulator training from January to March 2027; line training from March to May 2027.
• Captains: recruitment in Warsaw from September to December 2026, and the conversion course from 4 January 2027, in Warsaw.
• Where you train: the type-rating training is in Warsaw, where Enter Air owns its training center, the Enter Air Training Center (Enter Air’s release of 28 May 2026).

The page still listed the First Officer offer after its recruitment month, so check with Enter Air whether an application sent now joins this course or the next. Enter Air also recruits seasonal B737 Captains through a crew agency, Rishworth Aviation, which listed B737NG Captain and seasonal B737 Captain roles for Enter Air on 13 November 2026.

Bases and fleet

Bases: First Officer offer of 13 November 2026: a base in Poland at Warsaw (WAW), Katowice (KTW), Poznań (POZ), Wrocław (WRO) or Gdańsk (GDN) · Captain offer: the same five, and Kraków (KRK) · Enter Air’s release of 28 May 2026: more than ten permanent and seasonal operating bases, among them Warsaw, Katowice, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdańsk, London and Madrid

Fleet: Summer 2026 operating fleet: 40 aircraft, 26 Boeing 737-800NGs, 12 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 2 on wet lease, after 3 new MAX 8s and 2 737-800NGs joined before the season (Enter Air’s release of 28 May 2026) · With Chair Airlines and Fly4 Airlines, the group flew 49 aircraft; at most one more 737 MAX was expected before the end of 2026, and four to five aircraft in 2027, four of them under signed agreements (Enter Air’s chief executive to PAP Biznes, Pasazer.com, 21 August 2026); Fly4 Airlines, which belongs to Enter Air and TUI, had gone into liquidation by 12 November 2026 (Pasazer.com)

The fleet, and the group around it

Enter Air’s operating fleet for the summer of 2026 was 40 aircraft: 26 Boeing 737-800NGs, 12 737 MAX 8s and 2 aircraft on wet lease, after three new MAX 8s and two 737-800NGs joined before the season (Enter Air’s release of 28 May 2026). The same release describes more than ten permanent and seasonal operating bases, among them Warsaw, Katowice, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdańsk, London and Madrid, and flights for Polish and foreign tour operators to more than 30 countries. The group then also included Chair Airlines in Switzerland, which Enter Air co-owns, and Fly4 Airlines, which leased aircraft with crews to other airlines (the same release). With them, the group flew 49 aircraft in August 2026, and Enter Air’s chief executive expected at most one more 737 MAX before the end of 2026, and four to five more aircraft in 2027, four of them under agreements already signed (Pasazer.com, 21 August 2026, from his interview with PAP Biznes). Since then, Fly4 Airlines, which belongs to Enter Air and TUI, has gone into liquidation (Pasazer.com, 12 November 2026).

Every aircraft in Enter Air’s own fleet is a 737, NG or MAX, so the type you train on is the type of your seasons here: the Library’s B737 NG and MAX differences sets out what changes between the two.

How to prepare

Enter Air’s recruitment portal, as search results showed it on 13 November 2026, lists five stages: the application, exams in English and aviation theory, an interview with instructors, a simulator assessment and a psychological assessment, and says candidates may apply many times. Prepare for each. For the theory exam, a frozen ATPL means the subjects are behind you but not forgotten: the ATPL theory banks are the revision, and for the English exam, practice the aviation English you use on the radio and in a crew briefing. Enter Air flies only the 737, so the B737 bank below is your type preparation for the instructors’ interview, with the B737 interview set for its technical questions and the CRM interview set for the crew questions; the Library’s B737 NG and MAX differences covers the two models in the fleet, and technical questions in airline interviews the shape of the questions. For the simulator assessment, the Library’s airline simulator assessment covers what assessors watch, and multi-crew cooperation courses the crew habits an MCC course teaches. For the psychological assessment there is nothing to learn by heart: answer honestly and consistently. Do the paperwork first, because the First Officer offer lists what to send with your CV: copies of your license, your medical certificate and your MCC certificate, and the first page and the last two pages of your logbook.

Enter Air has no interview guide on v1prep yet, so for the selection read the complete airline pilot interview guide and the Library’s competency-based pilot interviews. The licenses and courses Enter Air asks for are explained in the Library’s commercial and airline transport pilot licenses, class and type ratings and upset prevention and recovery. With 200 hours, compare the other airlines on our board that take First Officers under 500 hours on low-hour pilot jobs, and those that train the type rating on non-type-rated First Officer jobs. The other Polish airline on the board is on LOT Polish Airlines pilot requirements, the 737 airlines on Boeing 737 pilot jobs, Captain seats on direct entry Captain jobs, the region on airline pilot jobs in Europe, and the route as a whole on how to become an airline pilot in Europe. Check Enter Air’s entry on the jobs board for the latest status.

What we could not confirm

• Read directly on 13 November 2026: Enter Air’s cockpit crew page, its Captain offer in English and Polish, its autumn 2025 Captain offer and its release of 28 May 2026. From search-engine results of the same day: the five selection stages of its recruitment portal, which could not be downloaded, and the date of Pasazer.com’s report that Fly4 Airlines had gone into liquidation. Confirm the vacancy is still open before you apply.
• Whether a First Officer applying after October 2026, the offer’s recruitment month, joins the course that starts in November 2026 or a later one
• Right-to-work wording for First Officers: the offer states none
• What the training agreement costs the pilot or commits them to
• Whether Enter Air’s training includes the advanced UPRT course required before a first multi-pilot type rating: the First Officer offer does not mention it
• Which English level a Captain needs: Level 4 in the English version of the offer, Level 5 in the Polish one

These points are not published clearly by the airline. Treat them as leads, not facts, and confirm them on the careers page: careers page.

Common questions

Is Enter Air hiring pilots? Yes, at the last check, on 13 November 2026: Enter Air’s cockpit crew page listed a Captain offer, recruited in Warsaw from September to December 2026 for a conversion course from 4 January 2027, and a First Officer offer for pilots with 200 hours, whose recruitment was in October 2026, with theory from November 2026 and line training by May 2027. Ask Enter Air whether a First Officer applying now joins that course or the next.

How many flight hours do you need to fly for Enter Air? 200 hours of total flight time for a First Officer, with a CPL, a frozen ATPL, an IR/ME rating and an MCC certificate. A Captain needs 3,000 hours in total and 1,000 on the Boeing 737, counted as time in command in the Polish version of the offer, with an EASA ATPL and a B737 command rating (Enter Air’s offers, read on 13 November 2026).

Does Enter Air pay for the B737 type rating? Enter Air offers its First Officers B737 type-rating training in Warsaw under a training agreement, with a long-term contract. It does not publish what the agreement costs the pilot or whether a bond applies, so ask for the terms in writing before you sign.

Where are Enter Air pilots based? In Poland: its First Officer offer, read on 13 November 2026, gives a base at Warsaw, Katowice, Poznań, Wrocław or Gdańsk, and its Captain offer adds Kraków. The type-rating training is in Warsaw.

Can a non-EU pilot fly for Enter Air? Not through Enter Air’s own Captain offer, which asks for the citizenship of an EU country. Its First Officer offer, read on 13 November 2026, states no nationality or right-to-work rule, and the seasonal Captain roles that the crew agency Rishworth Aviation lists for Enter Air could not be read in full, so ask before you apply.