Loganair recruitment

Six new pilots have been taken on by Loganair.

They have been recruited by Loganair through the airline’s partnership with the Dundee Airport-based Tayside Aviation, one of the UK’s leading flight training organisations.

This latest intake will see the recruits work across four of Loganair’s five aircraft types including both Saab models - the 34-seat 340 and the 50-seat 2000 – as well as the 31-seat Dornier 328.

Six new pilots to take to the skies with Loganair

29 August 2015

For the first time in the history of the partnership, a Tayside Aviation pilot will be trained by Loganair to operate the Twin Otter aircraft - famous for its iconic beach landing at Barra.

Four of the recruits are Scottish, one is from Lithuania and the other is from Reunion Island, located east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

They come from varied employment backgrounds and feature amongst their ranks a former professional footballer, a kitchen fitter, a coffee shop manager, a property developer and a former professional jockey, who was also a freelance farrier and blacksmith.

The new recruits, who are already fully-qualified pilots, will spend the next three months at Loganair’s new training facility in Glasgow.

They will also spend time training with the airline's fleet specialists in Sweden and Holland before a final test flight with a Loganair examiner at the end of their training.