TUI Airways pilot hiring requirements
AirlineUnited KingdomEuropeTOM / BY
Registered as TUI Airways Limited.
Verified 15 August 2026
TUI Airways is the UK and Ireland leisure airline of TUI Group, flying Boeing 737 and 787 aircraft on holiday routes from UK bases. It recruits type-rated and non-type-rated first officers directly, alongside cadet and MPL routes run across the wider TUI Group AOCs.
Applications are made on TUI Airways's own site. SkyStudy never collects an application, a document or a fee.
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What the operator asks for
Minimum requirements on record
Only what TUI Airways 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
- UK licencesource
- Total time
- Not stated
- PIC time
- Not stated
- Multi-engine
- Not stated
- Turbine
- Not stated
- On type
- Not stated
- Type rating
- Not stated
- Medical
- Not stated
- ICAO English
- Not stated
- Age
- Not stated
- Right to work
- Not stated
- Also required
- You must hold a valid license issued by the appropriate aviation authority
- Also required
- You must have a valid and current type rating for the required aircraft when your employment begins
- Also required
- You need to hold an EU passport to apply for European-based positions
- Also required
- You must have the unrestricted right to live and work in the country of the AOC you are applying to
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.
Pay: Not stated on the operator's own page.
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
- 01Psychometric AssessmentsFirst stage of the recruitment process.
- 02Assessment CentreIn-person assessment stage.
- 03Simulator AssessmentSim-based assessment stage.
- 04Talent PoolSuccessful candidates can be placed in a talent pool for up to 12 months.
Simulator assessment: A simulator assessment stage is part of the process; no further detail on the exercise is stated.
Bases
- London Gatwick (LGW)
Fleet
- Boeing 737 family
- Boeing 787
Worth knowing
Notes on this operator
- ContextAll assessments and interviews are conducted in English, as this is the operational language across TUI Airline.
- ContextTUI Airways answers requirements per AOC rather than centrally, so the licence and right-to-work lines depend on which of its operations you apply to. The wording here is from its global pilot FAQ.
Provenance
Where each figure came from
Each entry is the sentence the value was read from, on the operator's own site. If a figure here is out of date, the quote is what to check it against.
licence.family
valid UK CAA license is required for UK operations
careers.tuigroup.comtypeRating.policy
You must have a valid and current type rating for the required aircraft when your employment begins
careers.tuigroup.comother
You must have the unrestricted right to live and work in the country of the AOC you are applying to
careers.tuigroup.comother
You need to hold an EU passport to apply for European-based positions
careers.tuigroup.comselection
All assessments and interviews are conducted in English, as this is the operational language across TUI Airline
careers.tuigroup.com
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Last reviewed July 2026