Expression of Interest - First Officer, Turboprop Fleet
ATR72/Q300 · New Zealand (various bases) · minimum 500 hours · permanent · apply on airnewzealand.co.nz
Low-hours entry: 500h total, 25h night, 40h instrument. Bases across New Zealand.
Pay & conditions · Asia-Pacific
Air New Zealand: pilot jobs, pay and conditions
New Zealand · Legacy · NZ / ANZ
Hiring selectively
Jet fleet EOI open to external pilots, but ~90% of jet vacancies go to internal turboprop transfers.
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
Not published
First officer
NZD 86,000–161,000 a year
about $48–91k a year
Captain
NZD 94,000–228,000 a year
about $53–128k a year
Unsourced aggregator ranges (Nov 2025); treat as indicative.
Open vacancies (2)
Expression of Interest - Jet Fleet
B787/B777 (SO), A320/A321 (FO) · AKL · minimum 1,500 hours · permanent · apply on airnewzealand.co.nz
Open EOI; NZ/Aus citizens or PR only; external hires capped ~10%.
Conditions
- Allowances
- Allowances included in salary per source.
- Roster
- AKL-based jet roles.
- Bases
- AKL, WLG, CHC
- Fleet
- B787, B777, A320, A321neo, ATR72, Q300
- Benefits
- Staff travel, KiwiSaver.
- Union
- NZALPA
- Careers site
- airnewzealand.co.nz ↗
Requirements
- First officer
- 1,500 hours minimum
- Type rating
- company-paid
- Licence
- NZCAA ATPL or CPL + ATPL passes, MEIR
- Other
- NZ/Aus citizen or PR; ELP L6; 12 months jet FO or turboprop command
Sources
Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only · figures from 2025-11 · checked 30 Oct 2026
- Air NZ - Expression of Interest Jet Fleet
- Aviation A2Z - Air NZ pilot salary 2025
- Air New Zealand: second officer rank (official)
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