Air France to reopen its cadet pilot programme

Suspended due to the Covid pandemic, Air France’s cadet pilot programm will reopen with new recruits at the end of the year.

After a rigorous selection process, candidates will receive a comprehensive training programm fully funded by the airline. They will join a school for a 24-month theoretical and practical flight course that includes several assessments. Successful candidates will join Air France or its subsidiary Transavia as first officers.

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The cadet pilot programm is open to candidates with no previous flying experience.

The online application process will be open from October 15 to November 20, 2022 on the corporate.airfrance.com website.

On-going recruitment of trained and experienced pilots

With the ramp up of capacity, Air France also resumed the recruitment of trained and experienced pilots in 2021. 300 newly recruited pilots joined the company since the beginning of the year, to be joined by an additional 100 hires by end of 2022.