Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Aviation Policy: Ryanair
Mr. Eddie Wilson:
If a young person decides to go to flight school - we partner with flight schools throughout Europe - they do their 200 hours. Some of these could be in Cork with the Atlantic Flight Training Academy. When they have undertaken that process, they come to Ryanair as part of a type rating. They get type rated on the Boeing 737. Within about six months of that, if they successfully pass and go through the mentored programme, they will then get a job as a first officer. Hopefully, with all the growth coming, they will then get one of these jobs that pays €150,000 to €200,000, as a promotion to captain, within about four years after that. Hopefully, as well it will be their home-town.
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