If you pass the group exercise, the interview follows the same day. It lasts 20 to 30 minutes, with a panel of one or two Wizz captains, someone from Wizz's recruitment team and a representative of the school. It is a conversation, not a presentation: expect to be interrupted and taken deeper, so prepare key points rather than a script.
The questions, by theme
Motivation and fit: tell us about yourself in three or four minutes; why a pilot, why Wizz, and why not another airline you may also be applying to. Answer the last one honestly and for the long term, because a plan to leave after a few years is a reason to turn you down.
Bases and life abroad: Wizz allocates bases by operational need, so expect questions on where you would and would not live, and whether being far from home is a problem.
The programme: the 13 ATPL subjects, the aircraft you would train on, the flying hours, where the school is, and what you heard in the morning presentation.
Technical questions that scale with your CV: little for a candidate with no experience, and much more with a PPL or simulator background, from lift and flight controls to instruments, weather and engines.
The school's own examples: What subjects does the ATPL licence include? Do you know UPRT? Do you prefer Boeing or Airbus, and why? What does VFR mean? Which social media channels do you follow in aviation?
Live mental arithmetic: speed from distance and time, minutes into hours, knots into km/h, nautical miles into kilometres, a flight level in metres, Pythagoras in your head. You may ask for a moment to think.
Your own examples: when you showed a skill, handled stress or a conflict, or led. Tell each as situation, task, action and result.
Two conversions are worth knowing cold:
1 knot = 1.852 km/h, and 1 nautical mile = 1.852 km.
1 foot = 0.3048 m, so FL250 (25,000 ft) is about 7,620 m.
How to prepare
Aviation Knowledge covers the theory the technical questions draw on: principles of flight, instruments, meteorology and systems. Speed, Distance & Time and Audio Math Test keep the live arithmetic quick, the second one by ear, as the panel asks it.
After the day
Results can take from a few days to a few months. If you do not pass stage 3 or 4, you wait 12 months before applying again.
On the Pathway Programme, a successful candidate receives a letter of intent before enrolment and needs a class 1 medical before signing.
The Pathway price is €84,500 on the 2025 price list: €4,500 at registration, €10,000 when classes start, then eight instalments of €8,750 every two months. Lodging, extra flying hours and the entry check flight for PPL credit are not included.
Wizz publishes the multi-crew course and type rating at €40,000 for the Academy, of which €25,000 is repaid at €415 a month over five years once you fly for the airline, and the Pathway runs on the same terms.
Pathway cadets from outside Italy usually finance through a bank at home; the school's partner loan is an Italian one.
A class 1 medical issued elsewhere must be transferred to the Italian authority, which takes months, so start early.
Keeping the offer
The Pathway offer is conditional on your results in training. Wizz's standards are:
an average of 85% across the 13 ATPL theory exams, with the school's internal checks at 75% or more;
resits on no more than 20% of the scheduled exams, never two failures on the same exam, and Wizz's approval for a third resit;
at least 200 landings;
extra single-engine and instrument training within 15% of the scheduled hours, and extra multi-engine training within 10%;
no involvement in aircraft damage or accidents.
Miss them and Wizz may suspend the offer and reassess you at the end of the course. Meet them and complete the type rating, and there is no further selection before you join as a first officer.