Pilot Jobs in Italy 2026: ITA Airways and 3 Airlines With Italian Bases
Our jobs board tracks 1 airline based in Italy, ITA Airways, and 3 airlines based elsewhere whose records name Italian bases: easyJet, Ryanair Group and Vueling. At the last check ITA Airways’ First Officer seat was unconfirmed and its Captain seat not offered; of the airlines from elsewhere, Ryanair Group had the First Officer seat open somewhere in its network. For its MPL cadet route, ITA Airways asks for an excellent command of Italian, spoken and written, and of English, without naming an ICAO level; none of the 3 airlines from elsewhere names Italian in its record. None of the 4 says it sponsors a visa. This page lists each one with its Italian bases, seats, license and minimum, then the languages and the license, the routes from zero hours, and the traps in an Italian pilot vacancy: campaigns that open and close, contracts tied to one base, the hours each figure counts, who pays for the rating and the official channels. How to get the license itself, from ENAC’s Class 1 medical to its exams, is on the how to become an airline pilot in Italy page.
Always confirm on the airline’s own careers page before applying. Every figure here is what the airline published at the date shown against it on our jobs board; entries marked Unconfirmed are ones whose requirements we found but whose current vacancy status we could not establish from the airline’s own pages. Vacancies open and close without notice.
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The Italian airline (1)
The one airline on our board based in Italy, as it stood at its last check. The license and right-to-work columns are its record’s own summary; the hours are the published minimum, in the airline’s own measure.
| Airline | Bases, as recorded | F/O seat | Captain seat | License | Published minimum | Right to work | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ITA Airways Unconfirmed | Rome Fiumicino · Milan Linate | Unconfirmed | Not offered | No license required · MPL cadet entry | None · no prior flying experience needed | Not published · Italian required | 12 October 2026 |
ITA Airways flies the A220, the A320neo and A321neo, the A330-900neo and the A350-900, from Rome Fiumicino, its main hub, and Milan Linate (checked 12 October 2026). Its terms are set out line by line on the ITA Airways requirements page.
Airlines from elsewhere with Italian bases (3)
These airlines are based outside Italy but name Italian bases in their records, quoted here as recorded, with any entry route that names an Italian base. Their seats are counted across their whole network, so an open seat is not necessarily an open seat in Italy.
| Airline | Country | Italian bases, as recorded | Italian routes, as recorded | F/O seat | Captain seat | Right to work | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| easyJet Recruiting | United Kingdom | Italy | None named | Not recruiting | Recruiting | UK · EU for Marrakesh role | 12 October 2026 |
| Ryanair Group Recruiting | Ireland | London Stansted and Bergamo - Challenger 350/3500 business jet vacancies | Challenger 350-3500 Captains (London Stansted and Bergamo) - 'Expression of Interest' only, not a confirmed open position | Recruiting | Recruiting | EU · UK for the UK cadet route | 12 October 2026 |
| Vueling Not recruiting | Spain | Rome-Fiumicino · Florence | None named | Not recruiting | Not offered | Not published · Spanish EASA | 12 October 2026 |
Read the base lists with care: easyJet’s careers pages publish base countries only, Italy among them, and name no Italian airport (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair publishes no full pilot base list, and Bergamo is in its record only for its Challenger business-jet vacancies, where the Captain posts were an expression of interest, not a confirmed opening (checked 12 October 2026); Vueling’s base list, which names Rome Fiumicino and Florence, comes partly from third parties: a Vueling-owned page, as search results showed it on 5 October 2026, names Florence among its international bases, and which bases take new pilots is among the points we could not confirm (checked 12 October 2026).
Left out, because its base list names no Italian base: Wizz Air, listed under Hungary, whose pilot jobs page listed Direct Entry Captain assessment events for Wizz Air Malta in Rome on 2–5 and 11–18 November 2026, while its base list names only Wizz Air Hungary’s bases; the Italian bases of the group are among the points we could not confirm (checked 1 November 2026). Other airlines based in Italy, Aeroitalia, Air Dolomiti and Neos among them, are not on our board, so read their own careers pages; the Italy country page names them.
Who is hiring, seat by seat
First Officer seat open at the last check: Ryanair Group. Captain seat open: easyJet and Ryanair Group. Each airline as its record sums it up, with the date of the check; for the airlines from elsewhere the summary is for the whole network:
- ITA Airways F/O: Unconfirmed Capt: Not offered
ITA Airways had no pilot application open on 25 August 2026: its MPL cadet course page was unavailable and no further intake date is published. ITA also hires type-rated A320 and A220 First Officers in campaigns; the last one, published in December 2025, has closed. A search on 12 October 2026 found no open ITA pilot application. (checked 12 October 2026) — careers page - easyJet F/O: Not recruiting Capt: Recruiting
easyJet was recruiting Captains only on 25 August 2026: A320-rated and non-type-rated Captains at London Gatwick, and A320-rated Captains in Marrakesh on a two-year contract through an agency rather than with easyJet itself. Its own system showed no First Officer or cadet vacancy. On 12 October 2026 job boards still relayed its Captain listings, and no First Officer or cadet vacancy was found. (checked 12 October 2026) — careers page · Study guide (PDF, €4.99) - Ryanair Group F/O: Recruiting Capt: Recruiting
Ryanair’s own pilot portal had nine pilot and cadet vacancies open on 25 August 2026, three of them Challenger business-jet roles, and its careers site said it had open positions for experienced pilots across the Group. Ryanair publishes no posting or closing dates. On 12 October 2026 a Buzz posting for non-type-rated 737 First Officers, dated 24 June 2026, was still on Ryanair’s jobs site. (checked 12 October 2026) — careers page · Study guide (PDF, €4.99) - Vueling F/O: Not recruiting Capt: Not offered
Vueling had no pilot vacancy on 25 August 2026: its last “First Officer A320 - 2026” call had expired and the Vueling MAPS cadet route was closed for applications. Its pilots’ talent pool, “Connect”, was still open. A search on 12 October 2026 found no newer pilot call. (checked 12 October 2026) — careers page
For Captains in Italy: ITA Airways publishes no direct-entry Captain route (checked 12 October 2026); easyJet’s Captain vacancies at its last check were at London Gatwick and, on a two-year contract through an agency rather than with easyJet, in Marrakesh, none in Italy (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair’s Challenger Captain posts in Bergamo were an expression of interest only (checked 12 October 2026); Wizz Air’s pilot jobs page listed Direct Entry Captain assessment events for Wizz Air Malta in Rome in November 2026, among them a Captain program for experienced First Officers, with no First Officer event (checked 1 November 2026). Every airline that takes Captains from outside is on the direct entry Captain jobs page.
Italian, English and the license
Everywhere in the EASA system a pilot who uses the radio needs a language proficiency endorsement at ICAO Level 4 or above, in English or in the language used on the radio (FCL.055, step 3 of the Europe page), but the airlines decide what else they ask: for its MPL cadet route, ITA Airways asks for an excellent command of Italian, spoken and written, and of English, without naming an ICAO level (checked 12 October 2026); easyJet asks for ICAO English at Level 4 (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair for ICAO English at Level 4, written as well as spoken (checked 12 October 2026); Vueling for ICAO English at Level 4 or higher before its operator conversion course (checked 12 October 2026). None of the 3 airlines from elsewhere names Italian in its record. For the endorsement itself, ENAC certifies language test centers for Italian as well as English, as the Italy country page sets out.
A license issued by any EASA state is valid in Italy without conversion (step 6 of the Italy country page), yet an airline may want it from a given authority, or a document of another kind: Vueling’s last First Officer call wanted a First Officer’s Spanish EASA license before its operator conversion course (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair asks for an EASA Part-FCL license for every role (checked 12 October 2026); easyJet sets the license per vacancy, and its Gatwick Captain vacancies wanted a UK CAA license, which an EASA license alone did not meet (checked 12 October 2026). ITA’s MPL asked for the DLR aptitude certificate to take part in its selection; the DLR test can be sat in Milan, as well as in Hamburg or Zurich, by the Lufthansa Group’s published requirements (checked 12 October 2026); the Italy country page sets out the test, its price and where to book it. A license from outside the EASA system is converted first: FAA vs EASA covers the FAA conversion.
Routes from zero hours
The cadet routes the Italian airline’s record names, worded as recorded. The First Officer status is a different thing: a scheme can be open while direct entry is shut, and the other way round.
- ITA Airways Intake: Closed at last check
Cadet / ab-initio (Multi Pilot License, MPL): announced 16 July 2026; application window appears CLOSED as of 25 Aug 2026 (checked 12 October 2026)
ITA’s release of 16 July 2026 put its MPL at 21 months, for about 280 pilots over four years, selected and trained in-house (checked 12 October 2026); who pays for ITA’s MPL is not stated in its release, and the figure of about EUR 135,000 that Italian media report is among the points we could not confirm (checked 12 October 2026); easyJet names Urbe Aero among the partner schools whose graduates it may take, should it have additional vacancies, which it says are not guaranteed (checked 12 October 2026); Wizz Air’s Pathway Program at URBE Aero, in Italy, is still listed on its job board, but with content from 2024, so whether it runs in 2026 is among the points we could not confirm (checked 1 November 2026). A school that names an airline as a partner is not a cadetship: ask who selects you, who pays and what is promised. The cadet programs page compares who pays on each scheme, and the Italy country page the Italian schools and routes.
How to read an Italian pilot vacancy
- Campaigns, not standing vacancies. ITA’s last direct-entry campaign, published on its own site on 19 December 2025 as QuiFinanza and qds.it reported it, was for type-rated A220 and A320-family First Officers at Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate, and had closed by 25 August 2026 (checked 12 October 2026); Vueling’s last First Officer call had expired by 25 August 2026, and only its pilots’ talent pool was open (checked 12 October 2026); Wizz Air’s Rome assessment events of November 2026 were Direct Entry Captain events, a Captain program for experienced First Officers among them, and it listed no First Officer event (checked 1 November 2026). Watch the airline’s own channels and the closing dates, and expect a call to close within weeks.
- The base on the vacancy. easyJet’s Gatwick vacancies said they were for positions based at London Gatwick only, and its Marrakesh Captains were contracted through an agency, not employed by easyJet (checked 12 October 2026); easyJet holds the assessment centers for its direct-entry Co-Pilots and Captains at its training centers in London Gatwick or Milan, and an assessment in Milan is not a job based in Italy (checked 12 October 2026); Vueling’s last call gave its head office near Barcelona as the location and did not say which base a new pilot would join (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair publishes no full pilot base list (checked 12 October 2026). A base country on an airline’s list is not a vacancy in Italy: read which base, and which company, the contract is with.
- The right to work is yours to bring. None of the 4 airlines here says it sponsors a visa. easyJet sets the right to work per vacancy, and its cadet page asks for an unrestricted right to live and work in the UK, the EU or Switzerland (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair asks for an unrestricted right to live and work in the EU for its Buzz and Lauda roles (checked 12 October 2026); ITA publishes no nationality, residence or visa rule for its MPL (checked 12 October 2026); Vueling publishes no right-to-work rule of its own (checked 12 October 2026). What each European airline asks of a pilot from outside the EU is on the pilot jobs in Europe for non-EU citizens page.
- Hours with a qualifier. ITA’s December 2025 campaign counted 500 hours on type, simulator excluded, or 500 on an EASA-rated airplane over 30 tonnes (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair’s non-rated 737 First Officers need 700 hours in total, and a Buzz posting for rated ones asked for 1,200 hours with 1,000 on CS-25 aircraft and 800 on the 737 (checked 12 October 2026); Vueling’s only figure is “200 Factorized Vueling Hours”, and what it means is among the points we could not confirm (checked 12 October 2026). Hours on light single-pilot airplanes do not meet a figure counted on type, on CS-25 aircraft or above 30 tonnes. Every airline’s minimum is on the hours requirements page.
- Who pays for the rating. easyJet offers its non-rated Captains “funding options” for the A320 rating, not a free one (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair’s cadets pay for their rating (checked 12 October 2026); whether Vueling provides, bonds or charges for the A320 rating is among the points we could not confirm (checked 12 October 2026); who pays for ITA’s MPL, which includes the type training, is not stated in its release (checked 12 October 2026). Ask who pays, and what a bond costs you if you leave, before you sign.
- Apply through the official channel. ITA says its only official channels for job applications are the Work with Us page on its website and the job offers on its LinkedIn page, so a job board or agency that asks you for a fee is not one of them (checked 12 October 2026); Ryanair’s Future Flyer Academy takes applications only through its partner schools, not through Ryanair (checked 12 October 2026).
The other airlines of the region, from Ireland to Turkey, are on the pilot jobs in Europe page, and the doors at low hours on the low-hour pilot jobs page.
For the selection, the interview guides for ITA Airways, easyJet, Ryanair Group and Vueling, the complete interview guide, and the Library’s airline pilot recruitment and selection, pilot aptitude tests and airline simulator assessment articles.
Common questions
Which airlines are hiring pilots in Italy? At the last check the First Officer seat was open at Ryanair Group and the Captain seat at easyJet and Ryanair Group; at ITA Airways and Vueling both seats were closed, not offered or unconfirmed. For the airlines based outside Italy, these are their seats across the whole network, not necessarily in Italy. The tables on this page give the date each airline was checked; confirm the vacancy on the airline’s own careers page before applying.
Is ITA Airways hiring pilots? ITA Airways had no pilot application open on 25 August 2026, and a search on 12 October 2026 found none newer; its last direct-entry campaign, published in December 2025, was for type-rated A220 and A320-family First Officers with 500 hours on type, simulator excluded, or 500 on an EASA-rated airplane over 30 tonnes, and had closed by 25 August 2026; its MPL cadet intake, announced on 16 July 2026, appeared closed on 25 August 2026. Watch ITA’s own careers page and its LinkedIn job offers for the next call.
Do you need to speak Italian to fly for an airline in Italy? For its MPL cadet route, ITA Airways asks for an excellent command of Italian, spoken and written, and of English, without naming an ICAO level. The airlines from elsewhere with Italian bases name only English in their records: easyJet asks for ICAO English at Level 4; Ryanair for ICAO English at Level 4, written as well as spoken; Vueling for ICAO English at Level 4 or higher before its operator conversion course. The license itself needs a language proficiency endorsement at ICAO Level 4 or above, in English or the language used on the radio (FCL.055).
Which airlines from outside Italy have pilot bases there? On our board, easyJet (Italy), Ryanair Group (London Stansted and Bergamo - Challenger 350/3500 business jet vacancies) and Vueling (Rome-Fiumicino; Florence), as their records give them. easyJet’s careers pages publish base countries only, Italy among them, and name no Italian airport; Ryanair publishes no full pilot base list, and Bergamo is in its record only for its Challenger business-jet vacancies, where the Captain posts were an expression of interest, not a confirmed opening; Vueling’s base list, which names Rome Fiumicino and Florence, comes partly from third parties: a Vueling-owned page, as search results showed it on 5 October 2026, names Florence among its international bases, and which bases take new pilots is among the points we could not confirm. Their seat status is for their whole network, so read each vacancy’s base.
Can I fly in Italy with a license from another EASA country? Yes: a license issued by any EASA state is valid in Italy without conversion. An airline may still ask for more: Vueling’s last First Officer call wanted a First Officer’s Spanish EASA license before its operator conversion course; Ryanair asks for an EASA Part-FCL license for every role; easyJet sets the license per vacancy, and its Gatwick Captain vacancies wanted a UK CAA license, which an EASA license alone did not meet. A license from outside the EASA system must be converted first.
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