Emirates has announced a major recruitment drive as it looks to hire experienced pilots for its A380 service.
The airline is now inviting applications from seasoned commanders to join its Direct Entry Captains programme for its fleet of Airbus A380s.
Emirates has launched the recruitment drive globally and is seeking pilots with experience with the Airbus planes.
Emirates recruitment
The Direct Entry Captains programme is for technically skilled captains with a minimum of 3,000 hours of recent command on Airbus fly-by-wire wide-body aircraft such as the A330, A340, A350, and A380.
Candidates are required to have a minimum of 7,000 hours of total flying time on multi-crew, multi-engine aircraft, in addition to meeting other eligibility criteria.
New recruits will join a 4,200-strong flight crew community, including 1,515 A380 pilots.
Pilots receive a competitive tax-free salary, spacious accommodation, education allowance, and excellent dental, medical and life cover.
Other benefits include:
- Chauffeur-driven transport to and from work
- Laundry services
- 42 days of annual leave
- Confirmed Business Class annual leave flight tickets
- Concessional cargo
- Exceptional discounted travel benefits for friends and family
Pilots appreciate the well-defined career paths at Emirates – Captains can go on to become management pilots, recruitment pilots, technical pilots, standards captains, training captains, audit captains, examiners and instructors.
Staff retention figures reveal that around 40 per cent of pilots have been with the airline for 10 or more years.
In the past five months, the airline has welcomed 172 new pilots on its three recruitment programmes – Direct Entry Captains, Accelerated Command, and First Officers.
The airline continues to invest soundly in innovative pilot training, with its current facility housing 10 full-flight simulators.
The airline’s $135m, high-tech pilot training facility is set to open in March 2024.
The 63,300sq ft facility will increase pilot training capacity by 54 per cent and house six more full-flight simulators, including for the A350s and Boeing 777-9s.
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