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Icelandair: pilot jobs, pay and conditions
Iceland · Legacy · FI / ICE
Hiring status unknown
Direct-entry recruitment runs in waves; cadet programme intermittent; no live 2026 ad found.
Pay
Unofficial figures. Not from an agreement or the airline: collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Treat them as indicative.
First officer
ISK 700,000–1,250,000 a month
about €62–110k a year
Captain
ISK 1,200,000–1,600,000 a month
about €106–141k a year
Estimates (2026) of monthly base; approx €60-113k FO, €107-160k CPT per year.
Agreement news
- Félagsdómur mál nr. 6/2025 – FÍA v. SA f.h. Icelandair ehf. (section 18 of FÍA–Icelandair collective agreement, 10 Dec 2025) ↗
Félagsdómur (Icelandic Labour Court) · summary
Open vacancies (0)
No open pilot vacancies listed right now.
Conditions
- Allowances
- Per diems, night/weekend allowances, profit sharing.
- Roster
- Seniority/bid-influenced; ~11-14 days off/month.
- Bases
- KEF
- Fleet
- B737 MAX, B757, B767, A321LR, Q400
- Benefits
- Pension ~15.5% total, oneworld staff travel.
- Union
- FÍA
- Careers site
- icelandair.com ↗
Requirements
- Type rating
- company-paid
- Bond
- Varies by intake
- Licence
- EASA ATPL/frozen ATPL + MCC
- Other
- EU/EEA right to work; ICAO L4+; cadets need fluent Icelandic
Sources
Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only · figures from 2026-05 · checked 30 Oct 2026
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