Budapest, Hungary
Prepare for Wizz Air
2 courses prepare you for the Wizz Air selection process.
Wizz Air screens with TestAir360 at the first stage of cadet selection, on both routes.
Wizz Air screens with ADAPT at the Pathway Programme's second online stage.
Wizz Air selects cadets for two routes through the same four stages: the Wizz Air Pilot Academy, which trains at Tréner in Hungary, and the Wizz Air Pathway Programme, which trains at Urbe Aero in Rome. TestAir360 comes first on both, then a psychological assessment online, then a group exercise and an interview in person: in Budapest for the Academy, and at Wizz's training centre or the partner school for the Pathway Programme. Direct-entry pilot screening is not described this way.
Wizz Air Cadet Selection
Preparation for Wizz Air's cadet selection on both of its routes, the Pilot Academy at Tréner and the Pathway Programme at Urbe Aero: choosing your route, the application, the TestAir360 test module by module, the Symbiotics ADAPT stage, the group exercise and the interview.
ADAPT Test Preparation
Prepare for the ADAPT pilot aptitude test from Symbiotics — the computer-based aptitude stage in CAE's cadet programmes for IndiGo, easyJet and Volotea, and in several academies' own admissions.
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Wizz Air is Europe's largest ultra-low-cost carrier by fleet in Central and Eastern Europe, founded in Budapest in 2003 and flying 267 Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft in June 2026, most of them A321neos. It runs a point-to-point network from bases across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Italy and London, to destinations across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Its model is built on the lowest seat-mile costs in Europe and one of the youngest, most fuel-efficient fleets flying.
Flying for Wizz Air
The Wizz Air Pilot Academy (WAPA) is the airline's ab-initio route for nationals of the countries it lists, most of them in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It takes them from no flying experience through an integrated ATPL at Tréner in Nyíregyháza, eastern Hungary, and on to an A320-family type rating and a first officer seat. Cadets sign their training agreement before a notary in Budapest, which tells you how firmly the commitment is structured on both sides. Wizz Air also runs She Can Fly, the Academy route for women, and the Wizz Air Pathway Programme, which trains candidates from anywhere in the EU at Urbe Aero in Rome, with the cadet paying for the ATPL. It also recruits type-rated and experienced first officers and captains directly.
Cadet selection runs in the same four stages on both routes, the first two online and the last two in person. Stage one is TestAir360, the airline's approved pilot aptitude test, sat at home under webcam and microphone supervision for a €130 fee, with four practice sessions before the final test. The window to sit it is two months on the Academy and six on the Pathway Programme. Stage two is a psychological assessment; on the Pathway Programme it is Symbiotics' ADAPT test. Candidates who clear both are invited, at their own expense, to a group exercise and an interview on the same day: in Budapest for the Academy, and at Wizz's training centre or the partner school for the Pathway Programme. The practice sessions are simplified and leave out the maths and physics, so they only help a candidate who already knows how this kind of battery behaves.
Where Wizz Air is based
Wizz Air is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.