Continental Aero Flying School

How our graduates reach an airline

We have a real airline pathway and we will not pretend it is a guarantee. This page sets out both — what genuinely exists, and where selection decides.

Start here No flight school can guarantee you an airline job, and any school that does is selling you something it does not control. Airlines make their own hiring decisions, on their own timelines, against their own standards. What a school can honestly offer is training that stands up, a documented record of your flying, and a real introduction. That is what we offer.

The Skyway Airlines pathway

Through a 2025 memorandum of understanding, Continental Aero supplies pilots to Skyway Airlines, and selected cadets are hired as first officers. This is real employment, not a brochure line.

The honest qualifications, which matter as much as the headline:

Seats are limited

Skyway is a new and growing carrier. The number of cadet seats is small and it varies with how the airline grows.

Seats are awarded by selection

Aptitude, performance through training, medical fitness, and the airline's own standards. Not attendance, and not order of enrolment.

Presentation is not placement

Cadets are formally presented into Skyway's selection process with their complete training record. Candidates still sit the airline's own aptitude test, interview and simulator evaluation. We open the door; you walk through it.

Why our recommendation means something

Because it is not based on a single test. The online aptitude assessment is only the beginning — through your training we track progress against the eight ICAO core competencies, lesson by lesson, in the aircraft. By the time we present you, your suitability has been demonstrated in the cockpit over months, not inferred from a screen.

That is also why the recommendation is genuine rather than automatic. We do not present candidates we would not fly with.

The instructor route — how most of our international graduates get there

This is the pathway few schools explain, and it is the one that works.

Graduates selected to instruct at Continental Aero gain legal employment standing in the Philippines, build hours quickly, and accumulate a complete and verifiable training record. From there they apply to airlines directly, with the flying time and the documentation that airlines actually ask for.

Many of our instructors have moved to airlines this way. Instructor positions are selective and awarded on evaluation — we do not promise anyone a position, a salary, or employment in advance of that.

Cadet or modular — does the route change the outcome?

The licences are identical under CAAP. What differs is the introduction, not the qualification.

	Cadet Pilot Program	Professional / Modular
Licences	Identical CAAP licences	Identical CAAP licences
Pace	Integrated, cohort-based, roughly 18–24 months	Self-paced, licence by licence
Airline route	Formally presented into Skyway selection with full record	Applied for through standard airline channels
Admission	Rolling — a new intake opens every month	Start when your documents and medical are ready

Many modular graduates fly for the same airlines as cadet graduates. If a cadet seat is not available, the modular route is not a lesser path — and modular students can apply for a cadet intake later.

Where our alumni fly

More than 1,100 alumni over forty years. They fly today for Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, AirAsia Philippines, Korean Air, Emirates, FedEx, MAF and Air Niugini, among others.

How to read that list It is evidence that the training holds up over decades — not a placement rate, and not a promise that any particular airline is hiring now. Where a graduate lands depends on their performance, their hours, their medical, and what the market is doing the year they finish.

Flying outside the Philippines

CAAP licences are issued to ICAO standards and recognised in all 193 ICAO member states. That gives you a recognised basis to convert to another regulator — FAA, EASA, CASA, DGCA, CAAK, JCAB and others.

Conversion is not automatic. Each authority sets its own examinations, flight tests, medicals and timelines, and only that authority can confirm them. Tell us which country you are aiming at and an advisor will explain the specific pathway rather than guess at it.

What we will and will not say

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We will say

A real employment pathway exists for selected cadets, seats are limited, and selection is competitive.

We will not say

That a job is guaranteed. That an interview is guaranteed. That conversion to another country's licence is automatic. That any salary is assured.

If you are ever told otherwise by anyone representing this school, write to me directly and I will correct it.

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