Our fleet has been chosen specifically as the best learning/educational aircraft for new and aspiring pilots. Flight Instructor Certificate (CFI, CFII), Remain connected to your Cadet Academy mentor, Build flight hours toward your Airline Transport Pilot Certificate minimums. Prospective pilots with little or no flight experience can now begin their career track with applying to be a part of the Amerian Airlines Cadet Academy. Bob began his career with American Airlines in 1966. We also believe that flying is for everyone and pledge to help anyone who dreams of flying to one day earn their wings.

As the first-of-its-kind program, it was designed to provide the training, financing and mentoring environment that students need to successfully fly for American Airlines. After their check ride, they will start earning the 1,500 hours of flight time required for flying for the airlines. Part 141 approved Course (includes all FAA flight checks) – total 203 hours.

“We are excited to be the first flight school to graduate 13 cadets from such an incredible and industry-changing program. “I use the word passion, because to make a career in aviation it requires passion.” We look forward to connecting with you in the near future. For almost 80 years, American Flyers has been converting dreams into careers by giving students the tools and resources necessary to become an Airline Pilot. After 9 months of intensive training from our American’s flight school partners: American Flyers in Dallas, TX and Pompano Beach, FL students have completed the requirements to take their flight instructor check rides. Don’t know anything but that the largest airline in the world chose to place their Cadet Academy program with someone other than the largest flight school in the world. The American Airlines Cadet Academy was designed to provide an opportunity for future pilots to become first officers at one of American’s three wholly owned regional carriers and eventually fly larger aircraft at American Airlines.

I knew right then and there that that was who I wanted to be, not stuck in the back of the plane, but up front flying it. In the American Airlines Cadet Academy, you will train with one of our carefully selected flight schools and be paired with an American Airlines pilot mentor to walk with you through the program. In the American Airlines Cadet Academy, students are not only trained at one of our select flight schools but are also paired with an American Airlines (AA) pilot mentor to train them through this intense 9-month program. We have a dedicated program lender, Discover® Student Loans, so the financial aspect of training is simplified. “The program gives cadets the opportunity to excel and be completely prepared to enter 121 flight operations.” – Krystal McCoy, Supervisor of Pilot Recruiting Programs.

The students of American Flyers carry out their training with our select fleet of aircraft. Growing up, my mother was a flight attendant for one of the major airlines, and when she would come home she would tell me about the amazing places she got to go. Comment allons-nous utiliser vos informations. Your career as an American Airlines pilot begins at ATP Flight School. The journey has been one for the books, and if I could go back, I wouldn’t change a thing!”, “Growing up, my mother was a flight attendant for one of the major airlines, and when she would come home she would tell me about the amazing places she got to go.