Pilot Careers Live – Dublin 19.10.24
This Saturday, 19 October, Pilot Careers Live is making its annual visit to the Croke Park Conference Centre in Dublin. The event, designed as a one-stop shop for prospective commercial pilots seeking to learn about commercial pilot careers and the various training routes available, will feature a number of Europe’s largest flight training academy’s promoting their training programmes, alongside representatives from...
EFA cadets offered new fATPL financing opportunity
Following a tie-in with finance company Brain Capital, the European Flight Academy (EFA), Lufthansa Group’s flight school, is now able to offer frozen Air Transport Pilot Licence (fATPL) training programmes that only require a €10,000 payment contribution from cadets, regardless of individual financial circumstances. According to EFA, once a candidate has secured a training contract with the academy, no other financial securities,...
Women pilot licence issues on the increase in the UK
Data published by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) shows that the last four years has seen a 26 percent increase in the number of pilot licences issued to women. While the headline figure may look encouraging, there remains a significant disparity in the number of female versus male pilots, with women pilots accounting for just six percent of the overall figure, which is roughly in line with global averages. The CAA published the...
CAE announces 15th Women in Flight Ambassador
CAE have named UK pilot Elle Betchley as the fifteenth CAE Women in Flight Ambassador. The CAE Women in Flight Ambassador Programme aims to encourage girls and women to raise awareness of the opportunities for women to follow professional pilot careers. Elle is currently training on the CAE Generation easyJet Pilot Training Programme. She has just completed her ATPL ground school at CAE’s London Gatwick training centre and is about to...
BA makes a £21m investment in new pilot training
UK flag-carrier British Airways has committed £21m to training 200 new pilots in 2025 in a move which marks the largest investment in ab-initio flight training by a UK airline for decades. In a game-changing move, BA will pay the full training costs of 200 aspiring airline pilots, having already enrolled 100 pilots into its ‘Speedbird Academy’ programme in 2024. The scale of the British Airways programme is unprecedented in modern...
