Scotland's airline, based at Glasgow Airport, connecting islands and regions across the UK, with a four-year engineering apprenticeship leading to a CAA licence.
Loganair is a regional airline known as "Scotland's Airline". It was founded in 1962 by Willie Logan and has been flying since the 1960s, starting inter-island flights in Orkney in 1967 and in Shetland in 1970. It flies to the Scottish islands and mainland airports, and to places in England and abroad. Its fleet is about 35 aircraft including ATR turboprops, Embraer jets and small Britten-Norman Islanders, and it operates on around 60 to 70 routes. It famously uses the beach at Barra as a runway.
Loganair says it aims to connect regions to cities and island communities to the mainland. Its engineering team describes itself as a "close-knit team" keeping Scotland's airline flying safely. Its Chief Technical Officer said: "We're proud to support the next generation of engineers." We did not find a formal mission statement beyond this.
Loganair's head office is at Glasgow Airport in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and Glasgow is its main base. Its engineering maintenance operates from Glasgow, Aberdeen, the Isle of Man and Orkney, and it has announced plans for a base in Southampton with engineering roles. Its destinations include Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Inverness, Stornoway, Sumburgh, London, Manchester and Birmingham. A public encyclopedia entry lists around 886 employees, with no date.
Loganair says its apprentices are guided by expert mentors and its training department, and rotate across its facilities. A recent graduate of the scheme, now a Glasgow engineer, said his training "gave him a solid foundation" and confidence, and a second-year apprentice who had studied engineering at university chose the scheme for its practical approach. The company's engineers work on varied aircraft, which it says builds broad skills. These are company-shared stories, not independent reviews.
Loganair's early-careers route that we found is a four-year Modern Apprenticeship in Aircraft Maintenance at SCQF Level 6, with intakes for the Glasgow and Aberdeen bases. Apprentices earn a salary while they study and train, and finish with a UK CAA Part 66 aircraft maintenance licence. The application announced in March 2025 is now closed. The company describes the right person as passionate about aviation, someone who enjoys problem-solving and wants to earn while learning, and it lists no formal entry grades. The salary was not stated. We did not find a Loganair graduate scheme, cadet pilot programme or other apprenticeships, so check its careers site for other routes and the next intake.
Website: www.loganair.co.uk
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