Last updated: August 20, 2026
The information published on PILOT VALUE consists solely of subjective opinions and impressions based on the personal experience of the pilots who contribute it. As a general rule, PILOT VALUE cannot fully guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, usefulness or any other aspect of the content published here. Please treat it as one reference point shared between professionals.
That said, in running a community rooted in the aviation industry — a field that carries a high degree of public responsibility — we believe it is the duty of the PILOT VALUE team to engage sincerely with the integrity of that information and to keep improving and refining it day by day.
As the operator of a platform for sharing reviews, PILOT VALUE makes every possible effort to ensure that it causes no harm or negative impact to the aviation industry or to society at large.
Every report submitted is screened manually by our operations staff. Working from our own report response guidelines, we check rigorously for confidential information and inappropriate language, and any content judged inappropriate is withheld from publication.
As part of our commitment to guaranteeing the "quality of information", we require every report to be at least 300 characters long, deliberately setting a bar for posting. We also restrict copy-and-paste functionality in order to rule out casual reproduction of material from elsewhere, so that only first-hand, lived information from individual pilots is collected.
On every page where information is displayed, we provide a form that allows readers to report to us any post they feel is inappropriate or inaccurate. When a report is received, our staff checks the content promptly. We also award points that can be used on the site to users who submit useful reports of inappropriate content, so that the community as a whole helps raise the accuracy of the information.
PILOT VALUE rating scores aggregate the valid ratings submitted by pilots who have actually worked at the company. Scores are not a simple average: they are calculated using our own algorithm so that they serve as a more reliable indicator of "market value". To prevent bias toward any particular period, we also apply logic that keeps a score from fluctuating excessively until a certain number of responses has been collected.
The three points we prioritize in order to deliver more useful information
From a neutral standpoint, PILOT VALUE aims to play the role of conveying the true appeal of each airline through unfiltered first-hand voices rather than advertising.
Our aim is to create an environment in which "companies that value their pilots" are rated more highly, and fairly so, than "companies that do not", and in which the finest professionals gather at the airlines that are run with integrity. We believe that this will contribute to the healthy development of the aviation industry as a whole as it approaches the 2030 problem.
If you believe something we publish is factually wrong, infringes your rights, or should be taken down, please tell us. We accept requests from airlines, organisations and individuals alike. Please contact us here before starting legal proceedings — in most cases it resolves the matter faster.
[email protected] (the contact form reaches us too)
We send an initial reply within 7 days of receipt, acknowledging the request and telling you how long we expect the review to take. We give you our conclusion within 14 days — removal, correction, or leaving the content as it stands, with our reasons. Where we judge the matter urgent, we may hide the content temporarily while we look into it.
Our salary figures have sources. They are drawn from published material — airline recruitment pages, figures published by companies and unions, official statistics — and we keep an internal ledger recording where each figure came from. If you tell us a figure is out of date or that a source has been read incorrectly, we check it against that source.
Overseas reputation content is published as a faithful translated quotation with the source named at the end. We do not reproduce whole articles, and we do not present other people's material as our own writing.
Submitted reports are published as the opinions and impressions of individual pilots, based on their own experience. Anything that could identify an individual or a specific flight, and anything confidential, is withheld at the review stage (see "Maintaining and improving review quality" above).
We cannot tell you who wrote a review. PILOT VALUE is built on the premise that pilots can post anonymously, and we do not disclose information that would identify a contributor except where we are required to by due legal process. This protects the people who write here — and it is the condition on which honest reporting continues to be possible at all.