Royal Jordanian Pilot Requirements 2026: Hours, License and Hiring Process

Royal Jordanian, Jordan’s national airline, flies from its hub at Queen Alia International Airport in Amman, and at the last check, on 2 November 2026, its own careers site had no open pilot posting: its last First Officer and Captain postings there, of January 2025, are closed. The open doors were the contract adverts of its recruitment partner Brookfield Aviation, listed on Brookfield’s own job page that day: A320 First Officers with 1,500 hours total, 1,000 on jets and 500 as First Officer on the A320, on a full or frozen ATPL, A320 Captains with 5,000 hours total and 500 in command on the A320, and Embraer Captains, all on 12-month renewable contracts based in Amman. Every advert asks for a current rating on the type, and none says who arranges the visa. Royal Jordanian had 36 aircraft in September 2026, among them 17 A320neo-family jets, seven Boeing 787-8s, two 787-9s and eight Embraer E2s (Jordan News Agency).

Is Royal Jordanian hiring pilots now?

Recruiting at the last check on 2 November 2026 — First Officer seat: Recruiting; Captain seat: Recruiting. Contract A320 First Officers (1,500 h, 500 h on the A320), A320 Captains (5,000 h) and Embraer Captains through Brookfield Aviation, Amman-based, 12 months renewable; no open posting on Royal Jordanian’s own careers site

Requirements, as published

Reading the requirements line by line

The table above is Brookfield Aviation’s Royal Jordanian adverts as its own job pages showed them on 2 November 2026. Brookfield can change an advert at any time, so check each point against the one you apply to.

• Rated, and recent. Every advert asks for the rating already held, with at least 3 months of validity left. The A320 adverts ask for a last A320 flight or a proficiency check within the last 90 days, either accepted, and a proficiency check completed within 90 days before you join; the Embraer Captain advert asks for a last flight on the E190 or E195 within 3 months. No route for pilots without the rating was advertised.
• Three hour counts for a First Officer. 1,500 hours total, 1,000 of them on jets and 500 as First Officer on the A320. Ask Brookfield how it counts turboprop time before you rule yourself in or out: its Captain adverts word their jet minimum as turbofan and turboprop hours, while the First Officer advert says only jet hours.
• Command time for a Captain. 5,000 hours total, 3,000 on jets, 1,500 in command of jet airliners and 500 in command on the A320. Royal Jordanian’s own Captain postings, both closed, asked for more: 6,000 hours in January 2025 and 5,500 in February 2026.
• A full or a frozen ATPL. The First Officer advert accepts a full or a frozen ATPL on an EASA, UK CAA, FAA or ICAO license; the Captain adverts ask for a full ATPL. Under ICAO Annex 1, the international floor, the airline transport pilot license for airplanes needs at least 1,500 hours of flight time as a pilot of airplanes (2.6.3.1.1), so the First Officer minimum matches it, but the full license also needs time as pilot-in-command, or in command under supervision, that a frozen-ATPL holder may not have yet (2.6.3.1.1.1).
• A license validated in Jordan. The adverts list license validation with the local authorities among the selection steps. Jordan’s Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission may validate a license issued by another ICAO state for use on Jordanian-registered aircraft, under its rule JCAR-FCL 1.015 as search results relay it; ask Brookfield what it involves for your license, and who pays.
• English, age and the visa. Brookfield’s adverts state no English level and no age limit, and say nothing about who obtains the Jordanian visa and residence permit. Royal Jordanian’s own postings of 2023 to 2026, all closed, asked for English at Level 4 or higher, and its call for A320 Captains of February 2026 for an age of 25 to 47. ICAO recommends re-evaluating Level 4 at intervals of no more than three years (the Library’s pilot licensing framework), so check the expiry on your license.

Entry routes

• Contract A320 First Officer via Brookfield Aviation — 12-month renewable, type-rated: 1,500 h total, 1,000 h on jets, 500 h as First Officer on the A320 (listed on Brookfield’s job page on 2 November 2026)
• Contract A320 Captain via Brookfield Aviation — 12-month renewable, type-rated: 5,000 h total, 3,000 h on jets, 1,500 h in command of jets, 500 h in command on the A320 (listed on Brookfield’s job page on 2 November 2026)
• Contract Embraer E170/E190 Captain via Brookfield Aviation — 12-month renewable, rated on the E170/190 and current on the E190/195: 5,000 h total, 500 h in command on the E170/190; the airline trains first-generation E-Jet Captains for the E2, without a bond (listed on Brookfield’s job page on 2 November 2026)
• Direct hiring by Royal Jordanian — not open at the last check: the last First Officer and Captain postings on its careers site (January to March 2025) and its call for A320 Captains on Jordan’s national employment portal (8 February to 8 April 2026) are closed

How the Brookfield contract works

The adverts describe a 12-month renewable Brookfield Aviation contract based in Amman, not employment with Royal Jordanian (the Embraer advert calls it a direct contract with Brookfield), so read who your employer is, and what the contract says about the term, the roster, the visa, the license validation and the renewal, before you sign. On Brookfield’s pages of 2 November 2026 the two A320 adverts offer the same terms apart from the pay, USD 8,500 net a month for First Officers and USD 12,300 for Captains: accommodation in a five-star hotel, ground transport, positioning tickets, ID90 tickets on the airline’s network, international medical insurance, and a non-commuting roster with 8 days off a month, not consecutive. The selection, in the adverts’ words: document submission (a resume with your flight hours, your license and medical, the last three pages of your logbook stamped and signed, and your passport), a technical interview with the airline, a simulator check and license validation with the local authorities.

Brookfield’s Embraer Captain advert, listed the same day, takes Captains rated on the E170/190 and current on the E190 or E195, because the airline trains first-generation E-Jet Captains for the E2, without a bond; it asks for the same hours as the A320 Captain advert, with 500 in command on the E170/190, and Brookfield’s database page gives the pay as USD 12,300 net a month. EASA treats the E1 and the E2 as variants of one type, with the type rating EMB170, though they differ in the wing, the engines, the displays and the flight controls (the Library’s E-Jet family and flight deck).

Royal Jordanian also hires directly when it has openings. On its own careers site, its last First Officer and Captain postings (posted on 8 January 2025, expired on 9 March 2025) asked First Officers for 2,000 hours, 1,000 of them multi-crew on glass-cockpit jets, and 500 on the A320, the Boeing 787 or the Embraer E2, and Captains for 6,000 hours with 500 in command on one of those types. In February 2026 it advertised 20 A320 Captain posts on Jordan’s national employment portal, run by the Ministry of Labour, closing on 8 April 2026: an ICAO ATPL, 5,500 hours total, 3,000 on jets, 1,000 in command of jet airliners and 500 in command on the A320, ICAO English Level 4 or higher and an age of 25 to 47. A job board listed a Royal Jordanian A320 Captain vacancy from 5,500 hours as published in October 2026, which we could not find on Royal Jordanian’s own site; we found no direct posting open on 2 November 2026.

Royal Jordanian beside the Gulf airlines

Royal Jordanian beside the four Gulf airlines it is compared with on our jobs board, as recorded at each airline’s last check:

Read each row with its date. Emirates was recruiting First Officers and Captains for Dubai, with a recruitment roadshow reported to run to February 2027 (12 October 2026); Etihad’s own recruitment system listed A320 and A330 First Officer and Captain vacancies, all for pilots already rated and current on the type (20 October 2026); flydubai publishes rated and non-rated First Officer and Captain streams, each under a three-year training bond, though we could not open its application portal to see which are taking applications (20 October 2026); and Qatar Airways had no mainline direct-entry vacancy, its cadet program being for Qatari nationals only (12 October 2026). Of the five, Royal Jordanian was the only one whose open roles at its last check were an agency’s contracts rather than its own vacancies.

Selection process

1. Document submission to Brookfield Aviation: a resume with your flight hours, your license and Class 1 medical, the last three pages of your logbook stamped and signed, your passport
2. A technical interview with the airline
3. A simulator check
4. License validation with the local authorities

Bases and fleet

Bases: Amman, at Queen Alia International Airport: the only base Royal Jordanian and Brookfield Aviation’s adverts name

Fleet: 36 aircraft after the 17th A320neo-family aircraft joined, one of 10 aircraft of various types added since the start of 2026 (Jordan News Agency, 8 September 2026) · A320neo family: 17 in September 2026, an 18th due in December 2026 and two more in 2027 and 2028, with an A321 also expected in 2027 (Jordan News Agency, 8 September 2026) · Boeing 787: seven 787-8s, refurbished, and two 787-9s added in 2026, with a third due in 2027 and nine planned in all (Jordan News Agency, 8 September 2026) · Embraer E2: eight, mainly on the regional network (Jordan News Agency, 8 September 2026)

How to prepare

Every door Brookfield advertises for Royal Jordanian is for a pilot already rated and current on the type, so your preparation is the type you fly now. For the A320, work the A320 bank below for the systems questions a rated pilot is expected to answer without notes, and the A320 interview set for the way they are asked aloud. For the Embraer advert, the E-Jet bank covers the E170 and E190 systems; Royal Jordanian’s Embraer fleet in September 2026 was eight E2s, so learn what the E2 changed as well. The B787 bank covers the 787-8 and 787-9 it also flies, and every applicant can use the ATPL theory banks for the performance, meteorology and air law underneath. The adverts give the selection as a technical interview with the airline and a simulator check, so expect questions on your type and a check flown to its standard procedures, and practice the crew resource management and command questions with the CRM interview set. Do the arithmetic before you apply: your total hours, your jet hours, your hours as First Officer or in command on the type, the dates of your last flight on it and of your last proficiency check (the A320 adverts accept either within the last 90 days and want a proficiency check within 90 days before you join; the Embraer advert wants a flight on type within 3 months), and the expiry of your rating, which must have at least 3 months to run. Then ask Brookfield what Jordan’s Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission needs to validate your license, and who obtains the visa.

Royal Jordanian has no interview guide on v1prep yet, so for the technical interview and the simulator check read the complete airline pilot interview guide and the Library’s technical questions in airline pilot interviews and airline simulator assessment. For the Airbus control laws, read A320 flight controls: laws and protections; for the Embraer advert, the E-Jet family and flight deck, which sets out what the E2 changed; and to total your hours the way the adverts count them, flight time logging and recent experience. Other airlines that recruit rated A320 pilots are on A320 pilot jobs, Embraer operators on Embraer pilot jobs, Captain routes on direct entry Captain jobs, and the region’s airlines on pilot jobs in the Middle East, among them Etihad, whose A320 vacancies at its last check were also for rated pilots. Check Royal Jordanian’s entry on the jobs board for the latest status.

What we could not confirm

• How long Brookfield Aviation’s adverts stay open: they give no posting or closing date, so confirm with Brookfield that a role is still open before you apply
• Whether Royal Jordanian or Brookfield arranges the Jordanian visa and residence permit: neither the adverts nor Royal Jordanian’s own postings say
• Who employs you and on what terms: the adverts describe a Brookfield contract, not a Royal Jordanian one, and we could not read the contract itself
• Whether Royal Jordanian will hire First Officers or Captains directly again, and on which types: its own postings, all closed, accepted the A320, B787 or E2 in 2025 and asked for the A320 in 2026; a job board listed a direct A320 Captain vacancy in October 2026 that we could not find on Royal Jordanian’s own site
• Whether Brookfield recruits Embraer First Officers for Royal Jordanian: only an undated job-board copy ever showed such an advert, and Brookfield listed none on 2 November 2026
• Age limits and the English level for the Brookfield contracts, which its adverts do not state
• Whether the First Officer advert’s jet minimum counts turboprop time, as the Captain adverts’ jet minimum does
• What the license validation with Jordan’s Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission involves for your license, and who pays for it: we read the rule (JCAR-FCL 1.015) only as search results relay it

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 Royal Jordanian hiring pilots? Through its recruitment partner Brookfield Aviation: on 2 November 2026 Brookfield’s own job page listed contract adverts for A320 First Officers, A320 Captains and Embraer Captains, all based in Amman, on 12-month renewable contracts. Royal Jordanian’s own careers site had no open pilot posting, and its last direct call, for A320 Captains on Jordan’s national employment portal, closed on 8 April 2026. Brookfield’s adverts give no closing date, so confirm with Brookfield that a role is still open before you apply.

How many flight hours do you need for Royal Jordanian? As a contract A320 First Officer, at least 1,500 hours total, 1,000 on jets and 500 as First Officer on the A320. As a contract A320 Captain, at least 5,000 hours total, 3,000 on jets, 1,500 in command of jet airliners and 500 in command on the A320. These are Brookfield Aviation’s adverts as its job pages showed them on 2 November 2026.

Do you need a type rating to fly for Royal Jordanian? Yes. Every advert asks for a current rating with at least 3 months of validity left: on the A320, with your last A320 flight or proficiency check within the last 90 days; on the Embraer, with a last flight on the E190 or E195 within 3 months, the airline training first-generation E-Jet Captains for the E2. No route for pilots without a rating was advertised at the last check, on 2 November 2026.

Does Royal Jordanian sponsor the visa for foreign pilots? Its recruitment partner’s adverts do not say. Brookfield Aviation’s Royal Jordanian adverts, as its job pages showed them on 2 November 2026, offer a 12-month renewable contract with accommodation and positioning tickets, and list license validation with the local authorities among the selection steps, but say nothing about the visa or the residence permit, so ask Brookfield who obtains and pays for them before you sign.

How much does a Royal Jordanian contract pay? Brookfield Aviation’s adverts, as its job pages showed them on 2 November 2026, gave USD 8,500 net a month for A320 First Officers and USD 12,300 net a month for A320 and Embraer Captains. The A320 adverts add accommodation in a five-star hotel, ground transport, positioning tickets, international medical insurance and a non-commuting roster with 8 days off a month. The contract is Brookfield’s, for 12 months and renewable.