Lufthansa Aviation Training resumes pilot training. The newly organized Lufthansa flight school EFA starts with 75 places – the Group will double this capacity as early as 2023.
The pandemic caught the Lufthansa flight school in the middle of its ramp-up - the company pulled the ripcord in March 2020 and stopped all ongoing training courses. After a two-year break, Lufthansa is getting back into training young pilots with a new training concept. The most important change: "In future, training at the European Flight Academy will only lead to the acquisition of an EASA-certified ATP license," Lufthansa Aviation Training announced in a press release on Wednesday. Lufthansa is abandoning the previous MPL training with operator commitment.
The four-month theoretical training takes place in Bremen or Zurich, the practical part in Goodyear (USA), Grenchen (Switzerland) and Rostock-Laage. According to Lufthansa Aviation Training, graduates of the new program will be "prioritized" for open cockpit positions within the Lufthansa Group as part of a "campus model" - but the training, which costs at least 105.000 euros, does not guarantee a job at Lufthansa.