AeroScout vs Pilotsglobal comes down to what you actually need from a job site. Pilotsglobal is a pilots only board with airline reviews and daily hiring rankings. AeroScout is first and foremost a deep pilot board, with 1,391 pilot roles live right now, and it shows its pricing openly, matches jobs to your hours and ratings, and can submit applications for you. It also lists cabin crew roles, which Pilotsglobal does not. Plenty of pilots use both, and this comparison lays out exactly when each one wins.
Updated 19 June 2026, based on AeroScout's live tracking of over 1,100 airline and operator career pages.
As of 19 June 2026, AeroScout lists 1,579 live roles, 1,391 for pilots and 188 for cabin crew, across 734 airlines and operators in 942 locations. Of the pilot roles, 896 are open to applicants who are not yet type rated. Pilotsglobal does not list cabin crew roles at all.
The quick version
Pilotsglobal is laser focused: pilot jobs worldwide, with filters tuned to pilot qualifications and a layer of transparency on top. The airline reviews and daily hiring rankings are genuinely useful, and it is free for pilots. If you fly and you want to size up a carrier before you apply, it earns its place in your search.
AeroScout casts wider. It pulls live openings from 734 airlines and operators right now, gathered from their own career pages and from AeroScout's network, for pilots and cabin crew, matches them to your hours, ratings and licences, and runs next to a market dashboard and an optional tool called Multi Apply that fills in and submits applications for you through the airlines' own portals. The most listed fleet today is the A320, with 110 open roles, and carriers hiring this week include Ryanair, Wizz Air and Breeze Airways. The price is on the pricing page, and the free plan never expires.
Side by side
| AeroScout | Pilotsglobal | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | Pilots and cabin crew | Pilots only |
| The idea | Live job database, eligibility matching, market data, and optional auto apply | Pilot job board with airline reviews and hiring rankings |
| Free tier | Free forever, no card. Listings, search, eligibility matching, alerts | Free for pilots to register and search |
| Pricing you can see | Yes. Free, and Pro at $19.99 a month with a free seven day trial | No public pricing. Recruiter cost is contact sales only |
| Live roles now | 1,579 (1,391 pilot, 188 cabin crew), as of 19 June 2026 | 1,200 plus pilot vacancies (their own figure) |
| Airlines and operators | 734 with a live opening now, from over 1,100 career pages tracked | 70 plus countries covered (their own figure) |
| Eligibility matching | Yes. Matches jobs to your hours, ratings and licences, and shows how short you are | Pilot filters (flight time, licence, type rating, authority, visa) |
| Auto apply | Yes, through the airlines' own portals | Not offered |
| Airline reviews | No | Yes, crew star ratings |
| Hiring intelligence | Type rating demand, hiring velocity, fleet trends | Daily fleet and hiring rankings |
One note on the numbers: the AeroScout figures are pulled from our live database on the date above and move daily, while the Pilotsglobal figures are the company's own public claims, which we have not independently audited. Read them as a sense of scale, not gospel.
What AeroScout does that Pilotsglobal doesn't
You can see the price
AeroScout's plans are right there on the page: a free tier that never expires and needs no card, and Pro at $19.99 a month with a free seven day trial. Pilotsglobal is free for pilots, which is great, but it does not publish pricing at all, and anything on the recruiter side sits behind a contact sales form. As a pilot you will not pay either way, so this mostly matters if you like knowing how the place you are handing your CV to actually makes its money.
It can do the applying
Multi Apply fills in and sends your applications through the airlines' own portals, so you are not retyping the same logbook into fifteen different forms. You decide what goes out. Pilotsglobal does not do this and does not claim to; it is a place to find and research jobs, and the applications are yours to handle. Apply to two or three roles a year and you will not miss it. Run a wide search across a dozen carriers and it changes how your week goes. We walk through the workflow in our guide on how to apply to multiple pilot jobs at once.
It tells you if you are eligible
AeroScout reads a job against your real hours, ratings and licences and tells you whether you are short, and by how much, even on the free plan. That matters more than it sounds: of the 1,391 pilot roles live today, 896 are open to pilots who are not yet type rated, so the question is rarely whether jobs exist, but which ones you actually qualify for. Next to that sits live market data: which type ratings are in demand, hiring velocity, and which fleets are moving. If a type rating is your bottleneck, our report on which airlines pay for your type rating picks up where the matching leaves off.
Jobs sourced from our own network
AeroScout builds its listings two ways. Most come from monitoring over 1,100 airline and operator career pages directly, refreshed continuously, so you are reading the role straight from the source. The rest are sourced through AeroScout's own network: operator direct and open application roles that are handed to us and do not always show up on a public board. Either way the jobs are gathered from the airlines and our network, not lifted from another job site, which is why the same search here can surface roles you will not find on Pilotsglobal.
Cabin crew as well as pilots
If you are cabin crew this one is decisive: Pilotsglobal is pilots only, so it has nothing for flight attendants or cabin managers, while AeroScout lists 188 live cabin crew roles next to its pilot jobs. It also means a pilot and a partner who flies as crew can search one site instead of two. If you are a pilot it is a useful extra rather than the main event, and our cabin crew jobs board is one click away.
What Pilotsglobal does better
Airline reviews
Pilotsglobal runs a reviews section, the aviation answer to Glassdoor: crew star ratings across a good stretch of carriers. AeroScout has nothing like it. The depth varies, and plenty of airlines carry only a handful of reviews, so treat it as a first read rather than the final word. But the idea is a good one, and if you want a feel for what an airline is like to work for before you commit, that is a real reason to use it.
Fleet and hiring rankings
It also publishes a sortable table of who is hiring, with fleet size, aircraft on order, destinations and recruiting status, refreshed daily. If you are trying to read where the momentum is across carriers, that is a sharp, purpose built tool. The wider pilot hiring market is cyclical, as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics outlook shows, so a daily read on demand is worth having.
A pure pilot focus
Because it does one thing, the filters are tight: flight time bands, licence type, type rating, issuing authority, visa sponsorship. Registration is free and takes a minute. Doing one job well has its own advantages, and the coverage spans a lot of countries.
The immigration guide
There is also a plain National Interest Waiver guide for pilots heading to the US, written with a law firm, that knocks down a common myth instead of hyping it. Niche, but the kind of free, useful content that earns trust.
How we compared these
This AeroScout vs Pilotsglobal comparison runs on our own data. Everything in the AeroScout column comes from our live database on 19 June 2026: 1,391 active pilot roles and 188 cabin crew roles across 734 airlines and operators, in 942 locations, drawn from over 1,100 airline and operator career pages we track, plus roles sourced directly through our own network. Those numbers move daily as jobs open and close, so we date them rather than freeze them. The Pilotsglobal figures are the company's own published claims, marked as such, because we will not present a competitor's self reported numbers as audited fact. We compared the two on the things that actually decide a job search: who they cover, how openly they price, how well they match jobs to your qualifications, whether they apply for you, and what extra intelligence each one adds.
Who should use which
Go with AeroScout if you want jobs matched to your hours and ratings, you are applying to a lot of roles and want the applications handled, you want to see the price before you sign up, or you want live market data alongside your search. It is also the only one of the two that covers cabin crew.
Go with Pilotsglobal if you are a pilot who wants airline reviews to judge a carrier, you want a daily read on who is recruiting and how fleets are growing, you like a single board built only for pilots, or you are heading to the US and would value that immigration guide.
For a lot of pilots the real answer is both. Check the reviews and hiring rankings on Pilotsglobal, then run your search and your applications through AeroScout. Nothing stops you keeping two tabs open.
The verdict
Pilotsglobal is a strong, focused pilot board, and its airline reviews and hiring rankings give it something a plain listings feed does not have. If workplace transparency drives your decisions, it belongs in your search.
AeroScout fits better if you want clear pricing, jobs matched to your qualifications, and the application busywork handled, across both pilots and cabin crew. The wider scope, the live eligibility data, and the auto apply are what pull most pilots across, and cabin crew get a board that Pilotsglobal does not offer them at all.
Neither is the wrong choice. They are built for different priorities. Match the tool to yours, and use both if it helps.
Frequently asked questions
Is AeroScout or Pilotsglobal better for finding a flying job?
Neither is strictly better; it depends on what you need. AeroScout wins if you want jobs matched to your hours and ratings, applications submitted for you, pricing in the open, or live market data alongside, and it is the only one of the two that also covers cabin crew. Pilotsglobal wins if you are a pilot who values airline reviews and daily hiring rankings. Many people use both.
Does Pilotsglobal have cabin crew jobs?
No. Pilotsglobal is a pilots only board, so flight attendants and cabin managers will not find roles there. AeroScout lists both: as of 19 June 2026 it had 188 live cabin crew roles alongside 1,391 pilot roles, all searchable in one place.
Is Pilotsglobal free?
Yes, Pilotsglobal is free for pilots to register and search, though it does not publish pricing on the recruiter side. AeroScout is also free for jobseekers, with a plan that never expires and needs no card, plus an optional Pro plan at $19.99 a month.
What is the best Pilotsglobal alternative?
AeroScout is the closest alternative for most people. It keeps a deep pilot board with live eligibility matching against your hours and ratings and auto apply, adds cabin crew coverage too, and has a free tier. The one thing it does not copy is Pilotsglobal's airline reviews, so the best choice depends on which of those you weight more.
Where does AeroScout get its jobs?
AeroScout gathers roles two ways: by monitoring over 1,100 airline and operator career pages directly, and through its own network of operator direct and open application listings. The jobs come from the airlines and our network, not from copying other job boards, so you often find openings here that are not posted on a pilots only site like Pilotsglobal.
How much does AeroScout cost?
AeroScout has a free plan that never expires and needs no credit card. Pro costs $19.99 a month and comes with a free seven day trial; it adds auto apply through Multi Apply and the full market data. You can compare both on the pricing page before you commit to anything.
Can AeroScout apply to jobs for me?
Yes. The Multi Apply tool fills in and submits applications through each airline's own portal, and you decide which ones go out. It is the main feature Pilotsglobal does not offer, and it is the reason pilots running a wide search tend to move their applications to AeroScout.
See for yourself
The quickest way to judge is to look at the live roles. Browse current pilot and cabin crew jobs on AeroScout, free and with no card, and see whether the matching and the listings fit how you actually search.