Pay & conditions · Asia-Pacific

China Airlines: pilot jobs, pay and conditions

Taiwan · Legacy · CI / CAL

Hiring status unknown

Hiring status not confirmed; third-party guide lists DE FO/CPT requirements.

Pay

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

Sources are thin and mostly old. Pilot Jobs Network (November 2025) lists FO base pay from USD 10,000 a month, with allowances paid separately. Undated PPRuNe posts give FO packages of USD 4,900–5,800 a month before 18% tax for 75 hours. An Airline Pilot Central post from 2014 says A340 captains had been paid USD 9,850 a month a few years earlier. No recent captain figure was found.

Open vacancies (0)

Conditions

Bases

TPE, KHH

Fleet

A350, A330, A321neo, B777, B747F, B777F

Union

Taoyuan Union of Pilots

Careers site

china-airlines.com ↗

Requirements

First officer

1,500 hours minimum

Captain

5,000 hours minimum

Type rating

unknown

Licence

ATPL + type rating, Class 1

Other

CPT 1,000h jet PIC, 500h PIC on type; FO 500h on type

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

• China Airlines – Pilot Jobs Network wiki
• China Airlines (Taiwan) – PPRuNe Forums
• China Airlines Taiwan hiring – Airline Pilot Central Forums
• Epic Flight Academy - China Airlines hiring requirements

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