European Flight Training
 

I hope I have this info right....

From what I've ready many European/Asian airlines will hire people off the streets and train them for positions as a pilot within their company. If this is infact true, could anyone shed some light on these type of opportunities?

Such as....

If someone was to learn overseas and work there, then after a while come back and try to get a job in the USA, is it possible? are there FAA hoops to jump through for this type of training?

Training contracts......Serve "X" number of years for flight training?

Is the training truly free?

I was on Lufthansa's website and saw this, so I was curious..

Any info is helpful.

-E-Train

Generally speaking you would have to be a citizen of the country concerned. A Singaporean or Malaysian could apply for the cadet program at SQ, a UAE citizen could apply for the cadet program at Emirates, and citizen of the UK could apply for the cadet program at BA, etc, etc.

Different airlines have different bonding arrangements. I know the former ship's officers who did the flight training when EVA started were bonded for 15 years. That would probably be on the long end of a bond. A minimum would be 5 years.

U.S. companies don't care where you got your flight time as long as it is verfiable. You would also need to have an FAA certificate when applying to a U.S. airline.

One note of caution is that Fedex and I think UPS both require that you have lived in the USA for the last 5 consecutive years prior to joining. This is a new rule as a result of their Postal Service Contracts.

Typhoonpilot