The thing is that they are actually planning to start big groups in their academies. The shortage of pilots and expansion on the market is quite important situation for wizzair. Their plans to expand require pilots. This November there were two big group of almost 20 people for one academy in Hungary and one in Greece, nevertheless assessments are much more frequent now than they were one year ago.
I can tell you as a fact that there will be new groups, and apparently a lot in 2022.
Concerning you question about the nationalities, I guess it’s just a matter of time until they will accept every nationality from Europe. However, unfortunately, since I know and as you mentioned, the percentage of easterly europeans is high. And the reason for this is not ethnicity or something, is just that WizzAir doesn’t have diplomatic agreements with westerly countries for making the agreement they will offer you following the successful assessment. It’s not WizzAir fault, it’s just that westerly countries are too “protective” towards citizens. This is because even if this program is sponsored it doesn’t mean that you don’t need to offer some kind of guarantee that you will stick to the agreement, just like in the bank when you take the big loan, you need guarantee to the bank. And this is not seen “right” by the westerly countries since this is sponsorship for “educational purposes”.
Simply as that.
Anyways I would suggest to apply for the assessment, and you will see afterwards if they accept you or reject, don’t be skeptic about this nationality thing, the things can change day by day, it’s aviation, need to adapt to the new situation.
Best of luck!
Originally Posted by
CaptainRoger2021
Hey everyone i've just went trough this whole thread, since the beggining in 2018. I did the online aptitude tests in 2019 and didn't do well but although i failed i could see that they weren't hard... but i didn't prepare at all and wasn't really taking the tests seriously at the time for a few reasons. I started searching about the program again recently and came across this thread, some of the things i read worried me:
-First is that apparently the tests are harder now.
-I saw a lot of people say that although they say they accept anybody from the EU, they actually only accept or atleast favor eastern europeans.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's true as from all the people that said they were selected and were going to start the ab initio training, the ones that mentioned where they were from were all easterners... so if anyone has a counterexample (knows someone that is or he/she him/herself is a westerner that was selected) i would appreciate if they said anything.
Please keep in mind that i'm referring to actually being selected to be part of the programme, all stages before that like the application and doing the assessments are already proven to be open to everyone.
None the less, these concerns are more for my longterm plans as i don't believe they will carry out any programmes for at least one more year. I don't even know why they reopened the applications and put several course start dates for 2022. If i'm wrong about this let me know in case someone actually starts their ab initio programme in the next months.