TUI interview questions
102 candidate-reported items · stages covered: Online aptitude and knowledge tests, Recorded video interview, Assessment day, Group exercise, HR interview, Panel interview, Simulator assessment, Reported stage not specified
Candidates report 102 interview questions for TUI, across 8 stages of the selection process. Every question below comes from published candidate reports or airline material — grouped by where in the process it came up.
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The TUI selection process
- Candidate reports place TUI questions at these stages: Online aptitude and knowledge tests, Recorded video interview, Assessment day, Group exercise, HR interview, Panel interview, Simulator assessment, Reported stage not specified.
- Airlines change their selection often — treat this as what recent candidates report, not an official syllabus.
Reported TUI interview questions
Every item below is something a candidate reported being asked — no invented questions. Where the report carried a role or year, it is shown.
Online aptitude and knowledge tests
- English test as part of the TUI fly Belgium online assessment: a written section (multiple-choice on words/usage) plus a spoken section where you record your voice
- 75% of the written test is PAN-OPS (procedure turn speeds for class B aircraft, holding speeds above FL340, etc.)
- What are my strengths? (used as the practice question in the SOVA digital interview)
- A time I had gone out of my way to give great customer service?
- Systems quiz of 100 multiple-choice questions on 737 systems plus a few on jet performance in general (a second TUI fly Belgium candidate reports 100 multi-choice questions, four options each, 75 minutes, with a per-question timer of about 40 seconds)
- Questions about your motivation to join the airline, why you want to be a pilot, and why you think you'd be a good fit for the role and the company
- SOVA online technical questionnaire before the digital interview - reported by a non-type-rated FO applicant for the Brussels base as 40 multiple-choice questions on 737NG systems, to be completed within 7 days
- 30 English ATPL multiple-choice questions in 30 minutes covering basic theory across all subjects, worked without pen and paper so any calculation has to be done mentally
- 100 multiple-choice (4 options) B737 technical questions in 75 minutes, roughly 40 seconds per question, with a break permitted between questions
- The digital interview was 'mainly customer relations-based' (5 recorded questions, ~80 seconds to think, 180 seconds to answer)
- System quiz of 100 questions on 737 systems plus some general jet-performance questions, sat at the start of the TUI fly Belgium assessment day
- What are your strong and weak points? / Think about ways you may struggle or things you may find difficult over the course of the training phase and how you would work to address these
- TUI fly Germany 210PF selection battery: TSS psychological questionnaire (210 personal questions), ATPL part of 30 multiple-choice questions in 30 minutes, ENS English test (60 questions on grammar, synonyms, idioms), CRM questionnaire (96 questions), MIC motor coordination test, plus CBTs including ROT, SKT, KRN, WFG, VMC and OWT
- ATPL questionnaire of 100 questions under time pressure for the first selection round (TUI fly Netherlands / Belgium non-type-rated)
Recorded video interview
- A time I have gone out of your way to give great customer service?
- Why do you want to fly?
- What are my strengths? (given as the practice question before the real digital-interview questions)
- Questions about understanding your motivation to join the airline, why you want to be a pilot, and why you think you'd be a good fit for the role and for the company
- They also want to understand your strong and weak points - be honest about these
- A time I have shown leadership?
Assessment day
- Day-in-the-life role-play activity with a TUI Captain on the assessment day
- Case study (later format): you're given 20 minutes, an OFP and a lot of problems, and must brief the captain - the candidate report suggests inviting the captain into the brief with open questions such as 'Do you think we should go to this airport even with the broken ILS given the conditions?' rather than one-sided briefing
- Applied maths on the assessment day: dead reckoning, calculating height from glide and distance, radius of turn from ground speed
- Case study: given about 10 pages of flight documents and roughly 20 minutes to prepare, formulate and deliver a briefing for the captain (who is running late) on the flight - candidate structured it around weather, aircraft, NOTAMs, threats and error management
- 'Day-in-the-life' role-play activity with a TUI captain, plus a knowledge test, as part of the MPL assessment day
- Applied mathematics questions in the timed quiz - reported as things like dead reckoning, calculating height from glide and distance, and radius of turn from groundspeed (10 of the 25 questions)
- Graph questions: interpolating graphs / reading off information such as holdover times
- Graph/table interpretation questions - reading values off a graph or table and interpolating (e.g. holdover times) - 5 of the 25 quiz questions
- Case study CRM prompt: bring the captain into the brief with open questions, e.g. 'Do you think we should go to this airport even with the broken ILS given the conditions?'
- Technical quiz: 20 minutes for 25 questions - 10 ATPL (mainly GNAV and Principles of Flight, plus Boeing-specific questions)
- Tech quiz described by another candidate as 10 ATPL theory questions, 10 numerical reasoning questions and 5 tabled questions, with the tables under time pressure so you have to work out what the table was telling you before you could answer
- ATPL theory questions plus speed, distance and time calculations (technical/maths test on the assessment day)
- 'ATPL Theory questions, Speed, distance and time calculations' - what the technical and maths test covered on the East Midlands day
- Case study: brief a flight to a captain - you are given 20 minutes, an OFP and a large number of problems, and must brief the captain and try not to make it a one-sided brief
- Timed technical quiz of 25 questions in 20 minutes: 10 ATPL theory questions (reported as mainly General Navigation and Principles of Flight, plus some Boeing aircraft-specific questions)
- TUI fly Belgium MPL: short company presentation by an HR woman, then a systems quiz, then roughly a one-hour interview with HR and a company pilot, with the result given within five minutes
- Earlier version of the case study: you are at an outstation, the captain is outside dealing with technical issues, and you must handle the flight deck alone - covering flight duty limits / how long the cabin crew and you have, then fuel planning, then present your plan to the captain (25 minutes)
Group exercise
- Second group-task stage: given a list of five items to prioritise in 10 minutes - a) a passenger has medication in their hold bag and wants a word, b) a new load sheet needs completing, c) a company director wants a word about not having their suits, d) a front has passed over the runway and the runway direction has changed, e) the toilets are 40% full
- Group activity and discussion with other candidates plus a knowledge test (2023 UK assessment day structure reported alongside the technical and maths test)
- Group exercise: a group of roughly six discuss a problem and reach a decision, then the answer you chose is evolved into a new problem you then have to discuss and solve - assessed on how you interact with others rather than the answer
- Group exercise scenario (East Midlands, groups of six): 'your TUI flight is setting off for a TUI cruise but the bags aren't loaded due to a malfunction - do you (a) leave without the bags, (b) wait for the bags but don't delay the cruise, or (c) wait for the bags and delay the cruise?' 10 minutes to discuss and reach a decision; no right or wrong answer
- TUI fly Belgium MPL: face-to-face interview plus a group assessment (reported as around 30 minutes) at TUI HQ
HR interview
- Explain the operation of a gyro in your least comfortable language (reported on the TUI fly Belgium written/interview stage)
- What is the maximum turbulent speed?
- Explain a dangerous captain's attitude in the cockpit - what do you do?
- Describe your strengths and weaknesses
- How do you think you may struggle or find things difficult over the course of the training phase, and how would you work to address it?
- Recoveries for windshear and terrain alerts
- Crosswind take-off and landing techniques - explain the three techniques
- What is PTU?
- Compared to your background, what thing you did helped you the most - as a pilot / as a human being?
- How do you manage with stress in life?
- Turning radius
- Explain coffin corner
- Any weakness and strengths? / How do you manage them in life and in the cockpit?
- Why a leisure airline rather than a scheduled carrier or an LCC?
- Why TUI?
- Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years at TUI?
- What's your background?
- Anti-skid is inoperative before take-off - can you go? / How would this modify your departure?
- Biggest mistake you've ever made in an aircraft? / How did you solve it? / What did you learn?
- Explain the STBY system (737)
- TUI fly Belgium: debrief immediately after the interview, and if positive you go to the simulator (depending on what you applied for)
- What is the STBY system?
- Explain the speed trim system
- Why TUI? (standard opening in the TUI fly Belgium HR + TRI/TRE interview)
- Why should we hire you?
- Why do you want to work for this company?
- What base would you prefer?
- Hardest decision you've ever made in life?
- What's PTU?
Panel interview
- Why should you share your opinions even to someone with more experience?
- What did you know about TUI?
- They asked me to speak about yourself
- What was my most stressful event and how did I cope?
- TUI fly Germany final interview is with HR and fleet management in Hannover, following a 737 Full Flight sim screening
- TUI fly Germany selection reported in three stages: 1) 210PF test with an adjoining psychologist conversation in Hannover, 2) 737 Full Flight sim screening (usually Berlin), 3) final interview with HR and fleet management in Hannover
- The 2:1 competency interview wants to understand more about you as an individual and your motivation to fly for the company - your personality, how you have reacted and learned from situations in the past, and what motivates you
- Have examples ready of times of leadership / strength / weakness / self-improvement (STARR model)
- What are the pros and cons of teamwork?
Simulator assessment
- UK non-type-rated FO simulator assessment: reported as focused mainly on manual flying - quick-drag memorisations (QDMs), holding, general handling and an ILS, 'basically a check ride but in a Boeing'; assessed more on attitude to self-improvement and on showing an increase in aptitude from start to finish than on raw flying ability
- TUI fly Belgium simulator session: reported as engine failure after take-off, raw data, manual flight (approx 1 hour session the day after the interview)
- TUI fly Belgium / Jetairfly sim: engine failure after take-off, raw data, manual flight
- TUI fly Deutschland simulator screening: current B737-rated FOs fly a full line check including engine failure take-off, go-around and everything in limits; raw-data flying skills are valued highly and are part of the annual simulator event
- TUI fly Germany screening for already B737-rated FOs: a complete line check including engine failure take-off, go-around, everything within limits
- UK non-type-rated FO sim detail: one hour, 30 minutes as pilot monitoring and 30 minutes as pilot flying, flown raw data only; candidate elected a go-around on becoming unstable (glide slope more than half scale, drifting localiser) at about 500 ft above minimums, and the assessor agreed the decision was correct - the feedback given on rejection praised 'the guts to call go around in an assessment and not try to push on'
- You are departing London Gatwick runway 26L in a TUI B737 MAX 8 at high weight on a summer afternoon; at V1+5 you feel a yaw and the left engine fire warning illuminates - what are your actions?
- Simulator session focused on manual flying - QDMs, holding, ground handling and an ILS
- During the sim assessment you experience an engine failure on approach - talk through the N-1 go-around procedure
- Walk me through your technique for flying a raw data ILS to minimums
Reported stage not specified
- How does radiation fog form?
- What are the three most vital things you must report before entering into a hold?
- What does the MSA circle on the approach plate mean and mention its use?
- What are your greatest strengths?
- According to you, what defines a professional pilot?
- You are operating to Funchal (Madeira) on a B737; weather is marginal - gusty crosswind, low cloud on the mountains, intermittent rain - and the captain wants to attempt the approach. What factors should you consider?
- What do you mean by V1?
- What do you mean by V2?
- You are operating a TUI B737 MAX 8 from Manchester on a winter morning; de-icing is required but delays are cascading across your three-sector day and the turnaround team is pushing for a quick departure - how do you manage this?
- What do you mean by LDA?
- What was your motto behind becoming a pilot?
- How would your current boss describe you?
FAQ
- What questions does TUI ask at interview?
- Our research catalog holds 102 candidate-reported items for TUI. Examples candidates reported: “Why should you share your opinions even to someone with more experience?”; “What did you know about TUI?”; “They asked me to speak about yourself”.
- What does the TUI selection process look like?
- Based on candidate reports, questions come up at these stages: Online aptitude and knowledge tests, Recorded video interview, Assessment day, Group exercise, HR interview, Panel interview, Simulator assessment, Reported stage not specified. This is reported evidence, not TUI's official syllabus.
- Does TUI ask technical questions?
- Yes — 38 of the 102 reported items are technical or ATPL-level. The rest split between personal/motivation questions and scenario-based CRM probes.
- How do I practice for the TUI interview?
- AirlineBridge runs a free voice-first practice interview tuned on the questions TUI candidates report — 10, 25 or 45 minutes, with a scored debrief across eight behavioural dimensions.
- Is this TUI's official hiring process?
- No. Everything on this page is candidate-reported or published prep evidence, collected for interview practice. Always verify current requirements and stages with TUI recruiting.
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