Pilot Careers
We are looking for employees who have a good cultural fit and possess personality, integrity and professionalism. If you’re looking for a Flight Deck career and want to join a business that values its employees and offers superb rewards, benefits and long term career development then apply now!
Please ensure that you meet our minimum requirements before applying to easyJet.
Our minimum requirements:
- Air Transport Pilots Licence (or frozen ATPL) (UK and JAA)
- Class 1 Medical
- The right to work and reside in the EU or Switzerland depending on your base of preference
- You must be 63 years of age or under (our current retirement age is 65 due to European airspace regulations)
- Fluent in English
Please note that if you hold a European National JAA licence, you will have to exchange it for a UK JAA licence before you start with us.
At easyJet we operate the following schemes. Please click on the following links to find out more information about the schemes and which one is right for you:
Direct Entry Pilots Scheme
In order to join easyJet under the Direct Entry Pilot Scheme you must be:
- Rated on either Boeing 737 - 300 to 900 or Airbus A319/320/321 with more than 50 line flying hours on type
- Rated on a medium to heavy jet with more than 500 hours Multi-crew commercial experience
Direct Entry Captains require a minimum of 3,000 factored hours total and a minimum of 500 factored hours in command of a medium to heavy commercial jet (current command).
Non-Rated Co-Pilots need a minimum of 500 hours Multi-crew commercial experience on any medium to heavy jet.
Type-Rated Co-Pilots (B737 or A320 family) need a minimum of 50 hours on type.
Senior First Officers (SFOs) need an unfrozen ATPL.
First Officers (FOs) need a frozen ATPL (CPL + ATPL theory).
Factored Hours ratios for DECs only:
| Aircraft type | Command hours | Co-pilot hours |
|---|---|---|
| easyJet | 1 | 1 |
| Airline/Short haul/Jet | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| Airline/Long haul/Jet | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Turbine/Multi-crew/airline | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Single pilot/airline | 0.7 | - |
| Multi engine/non airline | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Fast jet/Military | 0.8 | - |
| Single engine/non airline | 0.3 | - |
| Rotary/Multi-crew | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Rotary single pilot | 0.1 | - |
The Bond - New DEP entrants to the Company will be bonded as follows:
| Non Type rated (B.737/300-900) (Airbus A320 Family) |
£17,000 for three years, reducing monthly on a pro rata basis. (To help cover cost of training). |
| Type rated (B.737/300-900) (Airbus A320 Family) |
£6,000 for one year (NOT pro rata). (To help cover cost of refresher training). |
TRSS (Type Rated Sponsorship Scheme)
In order to join easyJet under the TRSS you must have a minimum of 500 hours Multi-crew commercial experience on either a:
- Medium to heavy turbo prop
- Light jet
- Emb145/BAe146/Avro RJ
- Military Fast Jet / Multi crew Rotary or Heavy Transport
Please note that the TRSS is only currently available to those joining easyJet on UK contracts (bases where local contracts apply are Geneva, Basel and Madrid).
The Training
Our training provider, CTC, undertakes all of the Type Rating Training on our behalf. Our training standards are high, therefore if necessary, we may require that you undergo an Advanced Handling Course to prepare you for the Type Rating Training. This course can only be completed after you have successfully passed our selection process and must be passed to the required standard before you can start the Type Rating Course under this scheme.
The Bond
All training is expensive and as we are a low-cost airline, it is important that you provide us with a certain level of security against the significant costs that we will incur in your training, in the shape of a cash bond. Our commitment to you is that you will have the chance to join the most exciting airline in Europe - with tremendous career prospects.
We will require a bond of £23,000 (representing a proportion of the total training costs we will incur), which must be made available to our training provider at the beginning of the training course. This bond will be transferred to easyJet when we employ you on completion of the training - normally about 2 months after your training start date. On employment, we will return this bond to you, in monthly installments over 5 years.
For those of you that do not have access to personal funding, arrangements have been made to introduce you to a funding facility to obtain an unsecured loan for the bond money required.
Cadet Scheme
This scheme is managed by our training provider CTC and is for those wishing to join easyJet with little or no flying experience.
The Cadet Scheme is for low houred pilots and ab-initio cadets. This page provides links to the CTC website which offers all the information you need to know about applying for this scheme through CTC. You are not able to apply directly to easyJet under this scheme.
easyJet is well-known as an innovative organisation, committed to developing the individuals working for the company. The more traditional methods of training to become a pilot can be very costly and do not necessarily provide the opportunity to work for a progressive airline once training is complete.
easyJet has taken the innovative step to team up with "CTC Wings" to provide training in the foundation skills and ‘basic training' phases - during which you work to achieve your CPL/R (Commercial Pilots Licence and Instrument Rating) - through to the ‘advanced training' phase which ultimately enables you to operate as a First Officer on one of our growing fleet of Boeing 737 or Airbus A319 aircraft.
There are two routes into easyJet with "CTC Wings" for low hour pilots:
- CTC Wings Cadet for those with little or no previous flying experience, just the motivation, determination and commitment to becoming one of tomorrow's airline pilots!
- CTC Wings ATP for pilots who have already gained their CPL/IR and ATP and are now looking for their airline job as a pilot.
