The firm has launched a recruitment ad campaign with a particular focus on encouraging more women to become an airline pilot to address the gender imbalance in the industry. Last year, it was estimated that less than 5 per cent of UK pilots were female.
The recruitment drive follows a major round of job cuts by the budget airline in May 2020, just a few months after the pandemic saw a drastic fall in passenger numbers worldwide.
It cut around 30 per cent of its staff - roughly 4,500 jobs - as it attempted to scale down its operations in the face of reduced demand for air travel that is expected to last until 2024 at the earliest.
EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren said he was “delighted” that his firm was reopening its pilot training programme for the first time since the pandemic hit.
“EasyJet has long championed greater diversity in the flight deck and this series of ads aims to highlight the extraordinary breadth of skills our pilots have and show that pilots...