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Swiftair: pilot jobs, pay and conditions

Spain · Cargo · WT / SWT

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Part of the Swiftair Group (70% owned by Antin Infrastructure Partners since late 2025) group

Swiftair's own work-offers page has an open selection process for ATR 72/42 Captains (min 3,000 h TT, ATR rating) and ATR 72/42 First Officers (min 350 h TT; type-rated, fast-track or non-rated). Bases are given only as 'Europe'. Agencies (Resource Group/Contractair) have also advertised 12-month renewable ATR FO contracts for a Toulouse base.

Pay

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

ATR 42/72 First Officer, monthly base pay

No pilot pay scale is published openly. The pilots' collective agreement dates from 2006 and was still under renegotiation with SEPLA in late 2025 (Forbes, Oct 2025). FO figures are ATR monthly gross base pay from crowd-sourced pages (PilotJobsNetwork, updated Jul 2025; ReadyForTakeoff gives about 1,400-2,260). On top of base, pilots earn per-flight-hour pay: about EUR 15/h (ATR FO), 30/h (B737 FO), 50/h (ATR CPT), 70/h (B737 CPT). ReadyForTakeoff gives B737 FO base about EUR 2,000-3,500/month. Captain base pay is only given as net (about EUR 2,200 ATR, 2,800 B737 after tax, Mar 2025), so it is left out of this gross object; one entry puts top captain earnings near EUR 8,000/month (Nov 2023). In 2013-2014 SEPLA criticised the 2006 agreement, whose lowest copilot level was EUR 842 gross/month for ATR/Embraer crews.

Open vacancies (2)

Conditions

Allowances

Per-flight-hour pay on top of monthly base (rates in pay.notes). Layover per diems paid, rates not published for pilots. The 2026 ground/cabin-crew agreement sets general per diems of EUR 50 (domestic) and EUR 78 (international) gross, but it does not cover pilots.

Roster

Mostly night cargo flying. Example pattern at Marseille: 3 weeks on / 1 week off; full-time patterns also used. Around 70-90 block hours per month in the crowd-sourced data. Agency ATR contracts include ground transport and accommodation.

Bases

MAD, MRS

Fleet

A321F, ATR72, EMB120, Metro III, B737-300F, B737-400F, B757-200F

Benefits

No pension scheme listed, no staff travel listed. 30 calendar days annual leave (Spanish legal minimum).

Union

SEPLA (Sindicato Español de Pilotos de Líneas Aéreas) section at Swiftair

Careers site

swiftair.com ↗

Requirements

First officer

350 hours minimum

Captain

3,000 hours minimum

Type rating

ATR 72/42 rating required for Captains; FO intake accepts type-rated, fast-track or non-rated candidates. Type rating is generally paid by the airline for pilots taken on through normal selection (third-party source).

Bond

A bond of around 2-3 years may apply (third-party source, not confirmed by Swiftair).

Licence

EASA ATPL or CPL/IR, Class 1 medical

Other

ICAO English Level 4+, passport and right to work in the EU. Selection: technical knowledge and English test, then simulator check and interview. Apply by CV to Swiftair's recruitment email listed on the work-offers page.

Sources

Not from an official source: figures collected from pilot forums, salary sites and other public sources. Indicative only · figures from 2026-03 · checked 1 Nov 2026

• Swiftair - Work offers
• Swiftair - Fleet
• PilotJobsNetwork - Swiftair pilot jobs wiki
• ReadyForTakeoff - Swiftair pilot conditions
• Forbes España - SEPLA pide al nuevo accionista de Swiftair que desbloquee las negociaciones del convenio que data de 2006 (3 Oct 2025)
• Hosteltur - Swiftair fue denunciada por SEPLA por precarizar a sus pilotos (2014)
• BOE-A-2026-15182 - III Convenio colectivo de Swiftair (personal de tierra y TCP)
• Flight Deck Friend - Swiftair Non-Rated First Officer Contract Positions

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