Alaska Airlines is Hiring Over 500 New Pilots

If you’ve ever thought about becoming a commercial pilot, 2023 might be your year. Alaska Airlines has announced its plans to hire more than 3,500 new employees, including 550 new pilots.

They will be hiring for many positions, including maintenance technicians, contact center agents, flight attendants, pilots, customer service agents, and software engineers.

Most of the new jobs will be based at their hubs in Seattle and Portland, as well as locations up and down the West Coast. Benefits like the ability to work from home and flexibility of schedules will also be available for some roles, and many of the positions do not require previous airline experience. The openings will be posted at careers.alaskaair.com.

Safety In Motion Flight Center works directly with the Horizon/Alaska Airlines Pilot Development Program and can help!

The Horizon Air Pilot Development Program gives you a great start to a career with Horizon Air, and after successful completion of our Private Pilot training, interested applicants are interviewed by Horizon Airlines for consideration of acceptance into their Pilot Development Program. Successful applicants complete training at Safety in Motion and either gain experience working as a Certified Flight Instructor, fly with a Part 135 program partner or build required flight time in some other fashion. Upon successful completion of training and meeting the ATP or R-ATP minimums, applicants will begin training at Horizon Air as first officers.

Learn more about our program HERE.

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