What are the requirements to fly for Norse Atlantic Airways?

first officer 500 hours minimum; captain 3,500 hours minimum; UK CAA ATPL or CPL/IR with frozen ATPL for London; EASA ATPL for EU bases (licence state Norway, Denmark, Sweden or Ireland)

Pay & conditions · Europe

Norse Atlantic Airways: pilot jobs, pay and conditions

Q: How much does a first officer at Norse Atlantic Airways earn?

GBP 90,500 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 Norse Atlantic Airways earn?

GBP 143,000 a year, gross (Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only).

Norway · Low-cost · N0 / NBT

Hiring selectively

Part of the Norse Atlantic ASA group

Own careers site lists one pilot opening, B787 First Officer in London (published Feb 2026, page updated Aug 2026, assessments from 23 Jul 2026). Type rating can be provided.

Pay

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

UK (Gatwick) contract

First officer

GBP 90,500 a year

about €109k a year

Captain

GBP 143,000 a year

about €172k a year

No published Norse pilot pay scale found. Figures are user-submitted on PilotJobsNetwork (updated Feb 2026) and repeated by ReadyForTakeoff (Mar 2026): FO starting base about GBP 90,500 with yearly increments; Captain year-1 base GBP 143,000. Top of scale not known. Pay is built from base salary plus sector pay (about GBP 126 per sector), about GBP 5/hour duty pay from check-in to check-out, and premium pay above 70 block hours a month. User posts from Nov 2025 mention a pay rise from Jan 2026, not confirmed by any official source. UK pilots are covered by a BALPA agreement (Jul 2022) whose terms are not public.

Agreement news

Pilots secure new employment terms with Norse Atlantic ↗
BALPA · summary · 2022

Open vacancies (1)

Boeing 787 First Officer

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B787 ·

London Gatwick (LGW) · minimum 500 hours · apply on flynorse.com

Full-time. UK CAA ATPL or CPL/IR, UK Class 1 medical, 500 h on multi-pilot CS-25 aircraft, B787 rating or willing to train, ICAO English 5+, UK right to work. Assessments from 23 Jul 2026; listing may be stale.

Conditions

Allowances: Sector pay about GBP 126 per sector; about GBP 5 per duty hour; per diem about EUR 80 per day away from base; overtime premium above 70 block hours per month (crowd-sourced figures).
Roster: Transatlantic long-haul; about 3-4 round trips a month; at least 12 days off a month; roster published at least 14 days ahead; no commuter roster; summer heavy, winter much lighter.
Bases: LGW, OSL, CDG
Fleet: B787-9
Benefits: Staff travel (ID90/MyIDtravel), UK workplace pension (auto-enrolment), private health insurance for UK crew; Norwegian staff pension 5% up to 7G plus 15% between 7.1G and 12G.
Union: BALPA (UK pilots)
Careers site: flynorse.com ↗

Requirements

First officer: 500 hours minimum
Captain: 3,500 hours minimum
Type rating: B787 type rating or willingness to complete type-rating training (provided by airline)
Bond: Crowd-sourced info conflicts: an older note mentions a GBP 24,000 training bond for non-rated pilots; a Nov 2025 update says the bond was abolished.
Licence: UK CAA ATPL or CPL/IR with frozen ATPL for London; EASA ATPL for EU bases (licence state Norway, Denmark, Sweden or Ireland)
Other: FO: 500 h on multi-pilot CS-25 aircraft, Boeing and 2,000+ h multi-crew jet preferred, ICAO English level 5+, unrestricted right to work in UK, US C1/D visa eligibility. Captain: mainly internal upgrades; 3,500 h on multi-pilot jets plus wide-body or heavy-jet PIC experience.

Sources

Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only · figures from 2026-02 · checked 1 Nov 2026

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