Personally, I don't know of any airline that requires undergraduate
qualifications. I am however, extremely interested in any information you
could share with me about this issue.
Cheers,
Steve Thatcher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jean LaRoche [mailto:info_at_aero.ca]
Sent: Friday, 25 September 1998 8:12
To: CRM-Devel
Subject: re: The Pilot's Education Question
>I don't work for BA, so I may be wrong, but I heard somewhere that British
>Airways were going to run an in house MBA course, completion of which would
>be a requirement for future commands.
>
>Piers
Hi Piers,
I understand that BA offers a £20.000 sponsorship to those who want to take the
MSc program at City University in London. The MSc program was designed with
that in mind... it's very flexible schedule-wise.
BA doesn't press it at all however. I'm in contact with the City U. people and
they report having only 10 BA pilots/year. BA's chief pilot was cited in Flight
International as saying the MSc sponsorship program was rather directed toward
future management pilot positions.
The only airline I could fine that make a BSc an entry requirement is Air
France. They require pilots to be certificated engineers before joining the
company (they also consider other diplomas on a case by case basis). Is there
anyone in this forum that can confirm this?
Thankx
Jean LaRoche
Aero Innovation
Montreal