BACKGROUND
As the leading regional airline in Europe, and with an expanding aircraft fleet, Flybe has a continuing requirement to recruit high calibre, new First Officers who have completed a quality ab-initio training scheme. The ab-initio route now includes a new, highly innovative international training scheme, the MPL course.
The information outlined below concerns the first joint OAA/Flybe MPL course. Jointly designed by OAA and Flybe, the aim of this first course is to produce high quality First Officers, trained from the outset to Flybe’s requirements, and able to move immediately into the right hand seat of the airline’s advanced Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 on completion of MPL training.
Flybe and Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) have a long-standing relationship and OAA APPFO graduates already routinely join the airline direct from training. For the future, the MPL course will be the preferred route into Flybe, supplementing but not replacing the APPFO and will provide selected candidates with partial financial support sponsored equally by OAA and Flybe.
The first MPL course will commence at Oxford on 1st September and will last for approximately 65 weeks. The notes below, in the form of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), are intended to provide you with an outline of the scheme together with the information and guidance necessary to enable you to apply. Further information, guidance and advice will be given to those applicants invited to Oxford for the initial stages of the combined OAA/Flybe selection programme.