Pilot Supply Agreement

[eitiz2]

Hi guys,

Is that true that Atlantic Flight Training Academy has pilot supply agreement with Norwegian, Ryanair and more?

What does it mean at the bottom end? That your chances as their pilot is bigger to get a job?

Thanks.

[Alex Whittingham]

AFAIK the closest Ryanair have ever got to a 'pilot supply agreement' is an attempt to recruit pilots who wish to stay at their eastern and southern european bases (rather than asking to move as soon as possible) by asking local ATOs to recommend pilots post licensing but before MCC/JOC so that Ryanair can select and then complete that element of the training themselves. In all other respects Ryanair are an equal opportunity employer who take pilots from anywhere, any state, modular or integrated. Their Head of Training repeatedly says two things. (i) that they can discern no difference in quality between modular and integrated candidates and (ii) around 50% of the candidates are not suitable for employment by Ryanair's (very high) standards and on the basis of (ii) he is critical of the industry's purported 'selection' procedures.

Norwegian, I don't know I'm afraid.

[hobbit1983]

That's strange, isn't the selection process at Ryanair and most flight training schools these days broadly similar?

[Alex Whittingham]

Ah you british pilots mit your vonderful sense of humour...

but actually.....clearly not.