LATAM Airlines Group Pilot Requirements 2026: Hours, License and Hiring Process

LATAM Airlines Group recruits pilots by affiliate, and LATAM Brasil is the only one whose recent minimums we could find. Its external talent pool for copilots on the A320 and the Embraer E195-E2, open until 7 June 2026, asked for 150 hours of total flight time, an ANAC commercial pilot license with an IFR rating and the airline transport pilot theory pass, ICAO English Level 4 or higher, a first-class medical, a university degree and Brazilian nationality, and no type rating, as the Brazilian press reported it. Its December 2025 call for the first E195-E2 crews asked copilots for 500 hours and Captains for 5,000, and both for a valid E-Jet rating or recent E-Jet experience. At the last check, on 25 October 2026, we found no open LATAM pilot call in any affiliate, and we could not read LATAM’s own pilots pages, so the First Officer and Captain seats are unconfirmed. The group flies the A320 family and the Boeing 767, 777 and 787, and LATAM Brasil is due to add the E195-E2 from the last quarter of 2026.

Is LATAM Airlines Group hiring pilots now?

Unconfirmed at the last check on 25 October 2026 — First Officer seat: Unconfirmed; Captain seat: Unconfirmed. No open call found; LATAM Brasil’s 2026 copilot talent pool asked for 150 h, an ANAC commercial license with IFR, the airline transport theory pass and Brazilian nationality

Requirements, as published

LATAM Brasil, call by call

LATAM Brasil is the affiliate whose recent calls we could find. We could not read LATAM’s own postings, so every figure here is as the Brazilian press reported it, with the date of the report.

• The copilot talent pool, May to June 2026. For future copilots on the A320 and the Embraer E195-E2, with applications through the Trabalhe Conosco page of latam.com until 21:59 on 7 June 2026 (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 citizens with a valid Brazilian passport, a commercial pilot license for airplanes with an IFR rating, at least 150 hours of total flight time, the CCT de PLA, ICAO English Level 4 or higher, a valid first-class CMA and a completed university degree. A valid US B1/B2 visa, and recent experience or a valid rating on the A320 family or the E-Jets, counted in your favor, and candidates were to be chosen on their fit with the position, those points and their flight hours.
• The E195-E2 call, December 2025. For the first E195-E2 crews, with applications from 15 December 2025 to 4 January 2026 and admissions from February 2026: copilots with at least 500 hours of total flight time on airplanes, a commercial pilot license, an IFR rating and a multi-engine or type rating, the CCT de PLA, ICAO Level 4 or higher, a first-class CMA, a completed degree and a valid Brazilian passport; Captains with at least 5,000 hours on regular airlines, 3,000 of them on jets and 500 as pilot in command on aircraft the size of the E2 or larger, ICAO Level 4 or higher, a valid CMA and a Brazilian passport, with a degree only in their favor. Both seats asked for a valid E-Jet E1/E2 rating or E-Jet experience in the last three years (CNN Brasil and Aviacionline; Panrotas’s summary leaves it out, and Poder360 counts recent jet experience in your favor). LATAM offered one-time hiring bonuses of BRL 160,000 for Captains and BRL 80,000 for copilots (CNN Brasil and Panrotas, 15 December 2025), and by 28 April 2026 it had hired 54 pilots for the type, 31 Captains and 23 copilots, and planned to train pilots already at LATAM on it in the following months (Panrotas, 28 April 2026).
• The June 2025 call. About 160 pilots, some 150 copilots and 10 Captains, all based at São Paulo’s Congonhas and Guarulhos airports, with applications from 10 to 20 June 2025: copilots with a completed degree, a commercial pilot license, an IFR rating and a multi-engine or type rating, the CCT de PLA and at least 150 hours on airplanes; Captains with 5,000 hours on regular airlines, 3,000 on jets and 500 in command of aircraft the size of the A320 or larger. Those admitted trained for three to four months: ground school, the simulator, ending with a check by an ANAC-accredited examiner, and line training (Panrotas and Aviación al Día, 9 June 2025).

Across the three calls, copilots were asked every time for a commercial pilot license with an IFR rating, the CCT de PLA and a completed degree (in December 2025 as CNN Brasil listed them). What changed was the hours and the type rating: 150 hours and no rating in June 2025 and May 2026, 500 hours with an E-Jet rating or recent E-Jet experience for the E195-E2 in December 2025, so read the call you apply to. An earlier version of our record gave LATAM Brazil 1,000 hours with a degree or 1,500 without; none of the LATAM calls we found asks for that.

Entry routes

• LATAM Brasil copilot talent pool for the A320 and the E195-E2: from 150 h, no type rating needed, applications closed on 7 June 2026 (as reported)
• LATAM Brasil E195-E2 Captains and copilots: the December 2025 call, for pilots with a valid E-Jet rating or recent E-Jet experience, with 54 pilots hired by 28 April 2026 (as reported)
• First Officer and Captain calls by affiliate (Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay): none found open on 25 October 2026
• Pilot Cadet: a category on LATAM’s pilots page as search results showed it in September 2026; no current intake found

The other affiliates

We found no recent call with minimums from LATAM’s affiliates in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador or Paraguay. Chile’s licensing rule is DAN 61 of the DGAC, its civil aviation authority: an airline transport pilot license on airplanes takes at least 1,500 hours of flight time as a pilot of airplanes, no more than 100 of them in a flight simulation training device, with minimums of command, cross-country, instrument and night time within them (DAN 61.607(a)), the same total as ICAO’s floor (ICAO Annex 1, 2.6.3.1.1), and the applicant must be able to read, speak, write and understand Spanish (DAN 61.601). LATAM’s pilots page listed Captain, First Officer and Pilot Cadet among its categories, as search results showed it in September 2026, but we found no current cadet intake in any affiliate.

LATAM beside the other large airlines of the region on our jobs board, as recorded at each airline’s last check:

Brazil’s other two large airlines also hire on an ANAC license, as their records give it: GOL from 500 hours with a valid passport, and Azul with a Brazilian passport and no single minimum, its recruitment committee assessing the hours. Avianca publishes no hours figure on our board, and Copa’s First Officer posting, as job boards relayed it, starts at 1,000 hours. Read each row with its date.

Selection process

The airline does not publish its selection stages in detail; expect an online application, screening against the published minimums, an interview and a simulator or aptitude assessment before the medical.

Bases and fleet

Bases: Santiago · São Paulo · Lima · Bogotá · Quito · Asunción

Fleet: A319 / A320 / A320neo · A321 / A321neo · B767 · B777 · B787 · Embraer E195-E2 (LATAM Brasil, from the last quarter of 2026)

The fleet, and the E195-E2 in Brazil

LATAM’s own description of the group, in its May 2026 announcement of the talent pool, gives its fleet as Boeing 767s, 777s and 787s and Airbus A319s, A320s, A320neos, A321s and A321neos, with no A350: LATAM Brasil’s A350-900s left the fleet in 2021, and in June 2026 the group was reported to be evaluating the A350 and the 777X as possible successors to its 777-300ERs (ch-aviation and Travel Extra, as search results showed them). On 6 July 2026 LATAM said it would receive 41 new aircraft in 2026: 13 in the first half, seven A320neos, four A321neos and two Boeing 787-9s, and 28 more by the end of the year, for a fleet of 410, with its first A321XLR to follow in 2027 (CAPA, 7 July 2026). The E195-E2 is LATAM Brasil’s new type: LATAM ordered 24 with options on 50 more in September 2025 (CNN Brasil, December 2025), and the reports of May and June 2026 said it would join the fleet from the last quarter of 2026. Our record lists the group’s home cities as Santiago, São Paulo, Lima, Bogotá, Quito and Asunción; LATAM Brasil’s June 2025 call based its pilots at Congonhas and Guarulhos, so check the base of the call you apply to.

How to prepare

LATAM flies the A320 family and, on its wide-body routes, the Boeing 767, 777 and 787, and LATAM Brasil is adding the Embraer E195-E2. v1prep has banks for three of these: the A320 bank, the B787 bank and the E-Jet bank, which covers the E2 models as well as the first generation; there is no 767 or 777 bank. LATAM Brasil’s recent copilot calls were for the A320 and the E195-E2, so start with those two, and the A320 interview set covers the Airbus questions a technical interview draws on. All three of its recent copilot calls asked for the CCT de PLA, Brazil’s certificate of airline transport pilot theory knowledge: the ATPL theory banks follow the EASA syllabus rather than Brazil’s, so use them for the performance, meteorology and navigation underneath and prepare the CCT de PLA itself from Brazil’s own material. LATAM publishes no selection stages in what we could read; its May 2026 talent pool said candidates would be chosen on their fit with the position, the points counted in their favor and their flight hours. Prepare as for any airline selection, with the CRM interview set for the crew resource management questions and your English at ICAO Level 4 or higher, which the December 2025 and May 2026 calls asked for (the December call wanted it valid for at least a year at hiring). Do the paperwork first: keep your license, IFR rating, first-class medical and English certificate valid, have your degree certificate and passport ready, and, for LATAM Brasil, a US B1/B2 visa counted in your favor in December 2025 and May 2026.

LATAM 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 and airline simulator assessment. For the aircraft, start with the Library’s Embraer E-Jet family and flight deck for the E195-E2, and read class and type ratings for how a type rating is added to your license. The region’s other airlines are on our page of pilot jobs in Latin America, and the airlines that take First Officers with few hours on low-hour pilot jobs. Check LATAM’s entry on the jobs board for the latest status.

What we could not confirm

• 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
• The selection stages, which LATAM does not publish in what we could read
• An earlier record’s figure of 1,000 h with a degree or 1,500 h without for LATAM Brazil, which no LATAM call we found asks for

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 LATAM hiring pilots? We found no open LATAM pilot call in any affiliate on 25 October 2026. The latest we found were LATAM Brasil’s talent pool for A320 and E195-E2 copilots, which took applications until 7 June 2026, and its December 2025 call for E-Jet-rated E195-E2 Captains and copilots, which had hired 54 pilots by 28 April 2026, both as the Brazilian press reported them. We could not read LATAM’s own pilots pages, so check the one for your country.

How many hours do you need to fly for LATAM? It depends on the affiliate and the call. LATAM Brasil’s copilot talent pool of May and June 2026 asked for 150 hours of total flight time, as its June 2025 call did, and its December 2025 E195-E2 call asked copilots for 500 hours with an E-Jet rating or recent E-Jet experience; its E195-E2 Captains needed 5,000 hours on regular airlines, 3,000 of them on jets and 500 in command, all as the Brazilian press reported them. We found no current minimums for LATAM in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador or Paraguay.

Do you need a type rating to fly for LATAM? Not for LATAM Brasil’s June 2025 call and May 2026 talent pool, as reported: they asked for a commercial pilot license with an IFR rating and the CCT de PLA, Brazil’s certificate of airline transport pilot theory knowledge, and in May 2026 a valid A320 or E-Jet rating, or recent experience on them, only counted in your favor. Its December 2025 call for E195-E2 Captains and copilots did ask for a valid E-Jet E1/E2 rating or E-Jet experience in the last three years, as CNN Brasil and Aviacionline reported it. Who pays for the type rating, and whether it is bonded, is not in what we could read.

Can foreign pilots fly for LATAM? Not at LATAM Brasil on its recent terms, as reported: its May 2026 copilot talent pool was for Brazilian-born or naturalized citizens with a valid Brazilian passport, and its December 2025 call asked for a valid Brazilian passport too. For the other affiliates we found no published nationality or visa rule, and no LATAM call that offers to sponsor a visa; in Chile, the licensing rule asks an airline transport pilot to read, speak, write and understand Spanish (DGAC, DAN 61.601).

Does LATAM have a cadet program? LATAM’s pilots page listed Pilot Cadet among its categories as search results showed it in September 2026, but on 25 October 2026 we found no current cadet intake or terms in any affiliate. Watch the pilots page of the LATAM site for your country.