What are the requirements to fly for AeroLogic?

first officer 500 hours minimum; EASA ATPL(A), or CPL/MPL with IR (frozen ATPL); Class 1 medical

AeroLogic: pilot jobs, pay and conditions

Q: How much does a first officer at AeroLogic earn?

EUR 61,561–117,293 a year, gross (Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only).

Q: How much does a captain at AeroLogic earn?

EUR 129,998–196,854 a year, gross (Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only).

Germany · Cargo · 3S / BOX

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Part of the DHL Group / Lufthansa Cargo (joint venture) group

The airline's own pilot listing shows a permanent First Officer (m/f/x) post at Leipzig dated 11.12.2025, and an AeroLogic Flight Academy ab-initio programme with partner school TFC Kaeufer (Essen) taking applications from 02.11.2026. Non-rated FOs get a training contract first.

Pay

Unofficial figures. Not from an agreement or the airline: collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Treat them as indicative.

Second Officer

EUR 51,069–53,265 a year

First officer

EUR 61,561–117,293 a year

Captain

EUR 129,998–196,854 a year

Rank ranges are taken from the PilotJobsNetwork crowd-sourced pay page (brief scale updated 2 Oct 2026; detailed table said to apply from April 2026), annual gross before tax. That page also lists a 20% tax-free supplement on top of these sums, which it treats as expenses and leaves out. Senior First Officer is a separate rank in the pay agreement but has no figure there. Press coverage of the first collective pay agreement (Verdi, Oct 2022, running to 31 Dec 2023) gave a span of about EUR 64,000 to 208,000 a year including shift allowances, with FO raises of 13.8-24.6%, SFO 11.6-20.7%, captain 8.5% and a 20% shift allowance for all pilots. No later openly published pay table was found. Pay is built on 15 duty days a month; extra days are paid at 110% (1st and 2nd), 150% (3rd) and 200% (4th onwards), with a day rate equal to basic salary divided by 13.25 (crowd-sourced). During type-rating training a non-rated FO earns 70% of the target salary (company advert).

Agreement news

Verdi / AeroLogic collective agreements for cockpit crew (pay, framework, pension) ↗
aeroTELEGRAPH · summary · 2022–2023

Open vacancies (2)

AeroLogic Flight Academy - Ausbildung Verkehrspilot:in (training cooperation)

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B777F ·

Essen (training) · minimum 0 hours · apply on aerologic.aero

Ab-initio ATPL(A) training run with partner school TFC Kaeufer; applications open from 02.11.2026. Funding and bond terms not shown on the listing.

First Officer (m/f/x)

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B777F ·

LEJ · minimum 500 hours · permanent · apply on aerologic.aero

Permanent First Officer post at Leipzig/Halle shown on AeroLogic's own pilot listing. Adverts for this role accept B777-rated pilots and non-rated pilots (training contract at 70% pay, shared training cost). 500 h multi-pilot glass-cockpit time required. Apply through the listing page's Apply button (external applicant portal).

Conditions

Allowances: 20% shift allowance for all pilots under the 2022 agreement (press). Per diem about EUR 60 per duty day for all ranks (crowd-sourced, Mar 2025). Extra duty days paid at 110-200% of the day rate.
Roster: 15 duty days per month, normally around three long-haul rotations (mainly Asia and USA, e.g. Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Shanghai, Chicago, Atlanta, New York). Trips of 2 to 8 days; monthly trip and off requests. Pilots may live where they choose.
Bases: LEJ, FRA
Fleet: B777F
Benefits: Company pension scheme (crowd-sourced: employee 1.5% of gross, company 4% on top), company-paid loss of licence insurance, 40 days annual leave rising to 41 after 5 years and 42 after 10 years (2022 framework agreement allowed up to 42 calendar days), staff travel mainly on Lufthansa Group, DHL network jumpseat, crew catering app, crew transport to city hotels.
Union: Verdi signed the first pilot collective agreements (pay, framework and pension) in October 2022 after a Vereinigung Cockpit strike in 2022; Vereinigung Cockpit also organises pilots at the airline. Status of later pay rounds was not found in open sources.
Careers site: aerologic.aero ↗

Requirements

First officer: 500 hours minimum
Type rating: B777 type-rated FOs hired directly; non-rated FOs need a current multi-pilot type rating on an aircraft of 10 t MTOW or more and get a B777 training contract first. Training cost is shared: the pilot pays EUR 208.33 a month for three years, deducted from net salary.
Bond: Training cost share of EUR 208.33/month over 3 years for non-rated FOs (company advert). Crowd-sourced data mentions a 3-year bond for ready-entry SOs.
Licence: EASA ATPL(A), or CPL/MPL with IR (frozen ATPL); Class 1 medical
Other: Minimum 500 h multi-pilot time on glass-cockpit aircraft over 10 t MTOW (excluding simulator). Right to live and work in the EU. Fluent English required; one advert also requires fluent German.

Sources

Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only · figures from 2026-10 · checked 1 Nov 2026

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