{"id":8790,"date":"2024-02-06T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/new-pilot-captain-progression-timeline\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T09:00:12","slug":"how-long-does-it-take-for-new-pilots-to-become-airline-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=8790","title":{"rendered":"How Long Does It Take For New Pilots To Become Airline Captains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The dream job of many young aviators is to one day sit in the seat in the left seat of an airliner. Upgrading to <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/captain\/\">captain<\/a> takes years of training and thousands of hours of flying. The time needed to upgrade to captain depends on the pilot&#8217;s country, the airline, and the path the pilot takes to get to the airline. Here&#8217;s a rough estimate of how long it takes to become a captain and what goes into the upgrade.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting the years to the left seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1605,3422,3421,629,466,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline","category-captain","category-first-officer","category-pilots","category-upgrade","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90663,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions\/90663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}