Airline pilot interview questions — prep by airline
What airlines ask at interview is public knowledge — candidates report it. We collect those reports, group them by airline and stage, and build a practice examiner on top. 1210 reported items across 15 airlines, 395 of them technical / ATPL-level.
Pick your airline
Air France-KLM75 reported questions
easyJet85 reported questions
Eurowings88 reported questions
Finnair41 reported questions
IAG airlines103 reported questions
Jet269 reported questions
LOT Polish Airlines51 reported questions
Lufthansa109 reported questions
Norwegian98 reported questions
Pegasus Airlines57 reported questions
Ryanair136 reported questions
SAS36 reported questions
TUI102 reported questions
Turkish Airlines28 reported questions
Wizz Air132 reported questions
Questions every airline asks
Some interview themes show up at nearly every carrier. Each line below links the theme to the airlines where candidates reported it.
- “Tell us about yourself” — the opener almost every panel runs
- Strengths and weaknesses
- “Why us, and not the airline next door?”
- “The captain breaks SOPs — what do you do?”
- “How will you pay for your type rating?”
FAQ
- What questions do airlines ask in a pilot interview?
- 1210 candidate-reported items in our catalog cluster into a few recurring themes: “tell us about yourself” openers, motivation (“why us?”, “why a pilot?”), captain-authority scenarios, and — at the ultra-low-cost carriers — how you'll pay for your type rating.
- What are cadet pilot interview questions like?
- Cadet items in the catalog lean on motivation, trainability and basic technical knowledge rather than line experience — airline-specific cadet schemes like the BA Speedbird Academy add their own application and aptitude stages, listed on the airline's page.
- What ATPL questions come up at interview?
- 395 of the 1210 reported items are technical — meteorology, performance, systems and air law. The technical banks on each airline page show the actual wording candidates report.
- How should I prepare for an airline assessment?
- Read the airline's page here, rehearse the reported questions out loud, then run a timed practice interview. AirlineBridge's AI examiner asks from the same candidate-reported banks and scores a debrief across eight behavioural dimensions — free.