One Air Aviacion

Overall bad experience with my PPL license. After struggling around 2 years in OneAir was able to finish my course in other school in 2 months. While OneAir excels in marketing and fleet size, it faces significant issues with instructor consistency, scheduling, and communication, impacting overall student progress and experience. There are tons of systematic problems. Flight Instruction: - Lack of responsibility and motivation among flight instructors (FIs) and the school for students' progress and success. - Frequent changes in FIs, leading to inconsistent training and progress tracking. I had 17 different instructors, most of them just for one-two flights. - Many instructors lack experience, some being recent graduates from OneAir. - The tutor FI is often unhelpful with progress and mainly assists with administrative matters, likely due to a lack of motivation and accountability. Scheduling: - Limited to one flight per week, causing slow progress. Despite having huge fleet, you cannot fly frequently. And if you unlucky to get flights cancelled for some reason you might not get flight for 2-4 weeks. There are many other problems which are minor comparing to what I mentioned. Rail

All show, no substance. Sure, the fleet looks good, and you'll have a positive impression if you take a tour of the simulators and facilities. But the organization is a total mess. They are incredibly overcrowded, approaching 500 active students but staff is nowhere near adequate. Instead of offering more money to recruit more instructors, they burn cash expanding the fleet, which is not the bottleneck. I was told during the recruitment process that the modular CPL program could be done easily within 16-18 months as long as you study hard and finish the written exams quickly. I did that, yet it took me 3.5 years to finish everything simply because they barely scheduled any flights. The fastest I've heard of anyone ever finishing is 2.5 years. Time building is particularly slow - you will likely never be schedule for more than one flight per week, and the cancellation rate was 40-50%, usually for reasons unrelated to the weather although winter weather can also be a problem. The staff are unapproachable and bureaucratic, uninterested in student feedback, and arrogant about their operation despite all its deficiencies. The price might look right, but you will waste a ton of time here and the overall cost will probably end up higher than if you go to another school like Aerodynamics or FTE, not to mention the lost income from years you could have been working but instead spend sitting around, and the frustration of spending months waiting on pins and needles, twiddling your thumbs with nothing to do and no communication from the school. Coming to One Air was one of the worst mistakes of my life and I thoroughly regret it. If you have any sense, stay far away from this school. If you're not convinced by my review, at least start with the PPL only and stick to modular training. Mark my words: by the time you finish the PPL, I'm sure you will be so disappointed that you will not continue any other training. Aside from the school, I would add that Malaga International Airport is making operations increasingly difficult and I would not be surprised to see GA operations completely blocked in the future, which would force the school to seek another base much further from the city. La Axarquia is also becoming very overcrowded as a training airfield and cannot sustain the level of growth that is happening. Clay

I am currently studying at One Air to get my ATPL and for me it's been a good experience. The first thing that attracted me was the price and I had doubts because of the comments I had read, but to be honest it is a very good school to study at, with good facilities, plenty of instructors and nice modern aeroplanes. Of course there is always room for improvement but for me it is totally worth it. Ross M.

Avoid this place! Don´t waste your hard-earned money here, it´s a complete disaster. I enrolled my daughter in their program thinking they offered top-notch aviation studies and the required hours for her to become a pilot in 20 months. But because the place is poorly managed, she ended up going over the 20-month timeframe and only completed a small portion of the agreed hours. When she approached them about this, they just shrugged it off and did nothing. I had to withdraw my daughter, wasting 60k euros. Their excuse was that they had too many students to handle. It´s a total joke, and the staff there are unhelpful, incompetent, condescending, heartless, and only interested in making money. They couldn´t care less about providing quality aviation studies. You´d be better off finding another place for your kids. Albadr

I am really grateful to One Air stuff. They´ve helped me to progress as a pilot. I started my ATPL at another school and when things got bad I decided to move to One Air. It was the best decision ever! Awesome airplanes, good atmosphere and good price. Totally recommended. Cyril F

I obtained my PPL license at this school, and I recommend it because of the atmosphere between students and instructors. It was definitely a great experience and I really enjoyed the training during the months I lived in Malaga. Jess Kunze

Great experience. Finished my ATPL course there. The teachers are very professional. I flew with Alvaro for the first time in one of the twin-engine aircrafts at Malaga airport during my practice and I have to say that the experience was fantastic.The flight was easy as I had trained in one of the simulators they have, which is an exact replica of the twin-engine Diamond Da42 that I flew. James Smith

I recently completed my advanced RPAS licence. The one air trainers are helpful professional and very knowledgeable, They made the whole experience an absolute pleasure. Stephen Howitt

I´ve just finished my PPL with One Air. They have a very complete PPL course with materials and everything included. The instructors were great and I look forward to visiting again when I´m next in Spain to do some more flying now I have my licence! Gary

This company should be avoided at all costs! I did my ME IR there, and they´re unhelpful, incompetent, have a massive lack of communication skills, and end up costing you a lot of money! the accommodation is shocking and whenever you have a problem its always a mission to sort out, because you have to sort it yourself as they won´t! The flying is very inconsistent, due to aircraft and instructor issues. There is no briefing and they just expect you to know everything. No standardisation with their training, so you always get told different things, made to feel and look stupid, when you´ve been told you´re doing really well in the sim, and then suddenly its all wrong! I did a total of 2 hours flying within 3 weeks, when I was told after the first week of no flying that I would have an intense week to make up for it, which never happened! I know that theres people there now dying to get home. Integrated guys doing no more than 9 hours in 6 months due to lack of aircraft! Appalling!! Steve Jones

Terrible customer service!! Only one guy speaks english. No return to calls or email. Highly doubt about those 5-star reviews to be legit. Tom

Fantastic. Professional and new Diamond fleet James T

I recently completed my ME+IR Training with One Air. Everything was completed as promised, the course contained various extras like a course on cartography and a Garmin 1000 course. Probably the most important factor, for me at least, was that they had an all inclusive price with accommodation, materials, fees etc and no surprises, which was a VERY pleasant change from my previous experiences with flying schools. Darragh

I was looking for a lot of information about schools of avición in Spain. Oneair Group has apparently grown quite a bit in recent years, I saw they have an advanced simulator and Daimond aircraft that look pretty good, the truth is they are very handsome. Finally I went to visit them and interview me for the commercial pilot course. I decided at the end to get the pilot´s title with them, they made it easier for me to find accommodation in Malaga. To this day I can say that there is a very good atmosphere with my colleagues. I also decided to be able to carry out the flight practices in the international airport of Malaga. I am very excited and happy in the months that I am here. By the way the information in English is necessary to look for it in www.grupooneair.com . I hope this information helps them in the decision to choose a good Aviation School, as it is not easy. Moore B.

I´m currently studying for my PPL at One Air. Right from the start I got the impression that they were interested in providing the best of everything for their students, and, I have to say, they haven´t disappointed. The instructors are friendly and approachable and went out of their way to help out with any particular difficulties I had. I was studying my theory course as a mix between online classes and in person, and I was impressed with the online classes. They allow for good interaction with the instructor and you can clearly see any diagrams and videos used in the classes. Actually many students there in person used the online platform to record classes for reviewing later. I think the area where One Air really impressed me though was with their use of the latest gear. They use a fleet of new Diamond DA20/40/42s which is unheard of in my experience of flight schools, far more common to see beat up old Cessnas! Hard to find fault, top notch, 5 stars from me! Cian