Frontier Airlines Hiring Candidates With No Flight Experience

Adding more pilots to the workforce might appear to be the simplest way to address the current commercial pilot shortage. The lack of a sizable pool of suitable applicants to choose from is due to previous airline decisions, though. In order to shrink at the early peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many carriers gave their personnel buyouts and early retirement.

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Due in large part to the poor salary and poor working circumstances, those former employees don’t want to come back. In response, a number of airlines have started up programmes to train and hire job candidates who have little to no flight experience.

The newest carrier-sponsored training programme in the sector is the F9 Pilot Cadet Program from Frontier Airlines. The airline plans to take on 35 applicants each month for the 24-month training course that will be held in collaboration with ATP Flight School.

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The criteria for candidates are quite flexible: Candidates must have a high school diploma, while an associate’s degree is encouraged, be at least 19 years old, pass a background check, and be in good academic standing. Candidates must also obtain tuition support through ATP. Frontier, though, is providing financial assistance to help offset some of the expense of training.

Cadets who successfully finish the training course will be equipped with the certifications and flying experience needed to start their guaranteed career as a Frontier Airlines first officer. The Frontier fleet is anticipated to expand dramatically over the next few years, despite the purchase of Spirit Airlines falling through. By the end of the decade, the fleet of Frontier Airlines will have tripled due to the aircraft it has leased from Airbus.

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