Air Transport Professionals nec (ANZSCO 231199)

On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Air Transport Professionals nec on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Air Transport Professionals nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Air Transport Professionals nec is a VETASSESS Group B occupation, assessed on the same four-pathway shape as Flying Instructor: a Bachelor-level qualification highly relevant to the nominated title, traded against one to six years of employment depending on how relevant that qualification is. It exists to catch air-transport professional roles ANZSCO does not name individually — VETASSESS's suitable titles include Aircraft Navigator, Airworthiness Inspector, Balloonist and Flight Engineer Inspector. Every nec code carries one extra evidence item the named occupations do not: a cover letter justifying why the work belongs in this residual category rather than under a more specific title.

Where these applications come unstuck

The rule that matters most here, in VETASSESS's own words, is that employment highly relevant to another ANZSCO occupation cannot be assessed against an nec classification, regardless of whether that other occupation sits on a better visa list. Choosing this code for its visa reach rather than because the work genuinely does not fit a named title is the exact mistake the rule exists to catch. This page also carries a stray block of content — a specialisation list and an organisational-chart instruction that describe an unrelated managerial occupation, not this one — and it should not be treated as a genuine evidence requirement without confirming directly with VETASSESS.

An honest read on this pathway

Reaching a positive assessment depends on whether the applicant's actual duties genuinely fall outside every named occupation in unit group 2311 and beyond — a harder test than it sounds, since "generic air transport professional" is not itself what VETASSESS is checking against. Anyone whose work resembles Aeroplane Pilot or Helicopter Pilot duties should also know those two sit with CASA, not VETASSESS, so a wrong pick here does not just weaken the case — it can send the application to the wrong authority entirely.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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