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flydubai pilot hiring requirements

AirlineUnited Arab EmiratesMiddle EastFDB / FZ

Registered as Dubai Aviation Corporation.

Verified 15 August 2026

flydubai is a Dubai based low cost carrier flying an all Boeing 737 fleet across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Its own careers site publishes separate, detailed hour, licence, medical, English and bond requirements for Captain, First Officer and Second Officer roles, split further by whether a candidate already holds a current 737 type rating.

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  • Check carefullyNon type rated First Officer hires sign a USD 36,000 training bond; type rated First Officer hires sign a USD 24,000 bond, per flydubai's own careers pages.

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What the operator asks for

Minimum requirements on record

Only what flydubai states publicly. "Not stated" means the operator does not publish that figure, not that there is no requirement, and never that the requirement is zero.

Licence
ATPLsource
Total time
2,500 hsource
PIC time
Not stated
Multi-engine
1,000 hsource
Turbine
Not stated
On type
Not stated
Type rating
Type rating provided under a bond (USD 36,000)source
Medical
Class 1source
ICAO English
Level 4source
Age
Not stated
Right to work
Not stated
Also required
Type rated first officer route: at least 1,500 MPA hours flying time including 500 hours on B737-300 to 900, with a USD 24,000 training bond

Any age, nationality, residency, height or vision criterion above is the operator's own stated criterion, quoted from its own page. Some such criteria are lawful where an operator recruits and unlawful elsewhere, including in the EU. SkyStudy reports them factually and does not adopt them as requirements of its own.

Every published profile is checked by hand against the operator's own careers page, and is flagged for a recheck 180 days after that check. Requirements change without notice, so confirm every figure on the operator's own careers page before you apply.

Pay and contract

Contract type: Not stated. Do not assume direct employment; some operators contract through an agency or on a self-employed basis, which changes tax, sick pay and pension entirely.

flydubai's own first officer page states a package of AED 37,000 per month (basic salary plus housing and transportation allowances), with variable flying pay averaging AED 11,410 per month based on 70 flying hours.

For what pilots earn by region and seat, with its own sources and dates, see the pilot salary guide. Those are market ranges, not an offer from this operator.

Selection process

Not stated. This operator does not publish its selection stages, so nothing is listed here. A recruitment site claiming to know the stages is guessing, and so would we be.

Bases

  • Dubai (DXB)

Fleet

  • Boeing 737 MAX
  • Boeing 737 NG

Worth knowing

Notes on this operator

  • Cadet routeflydubai runs a UAE Cadet programme (225 hours minimum for ages 20-34, 1,000 hours for ages 35-50) and a no-experience-required Ab Initio programme for ages 17-30, both on careers.flydubai.com.
  • ContextThe hour figures here are the non-type-rated first officer route. flydubai publishes a separate, lower requirement for already type-rated first officers, listed under 'Also required'.

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