cabin crew

Dear Guest,

A bachelor's degree is not a firm requirement. Bilingual or fluency in multiple languages is a positive aspect to highlight on your resume. Activities that provide evidence of your physical fitness, and safety mindedness would also be positives.

If you have lifesaving or first aid certifications, these would also show the hiring firm that you are familiar with humans critical safety issues. Height in proportion to weight and adequate sight and hearing are important too. This is a job that deals with the public, so a positive attitude and clear cheerful speech will be important in that interview. Finally, if you have food service/ beverage service experience that is also something that shows preparation for cabin work.

Flight attendants are always in front of the public, so your grooming and appearance must be well above average for the interview and all contacts with potential employer if you are to stand out.

Finally, reference checks will try to determine your attendance habits, and how well you are organized. If you have been less than a superstar in terms of time and schedule and attendance, you will need to find another dream job, airlines live and die by the schedule, despite their ontime record here in the states.

my two cents, I have "medallion" and "elite" status on a couple airlines for probably a dozen years give or take and had a couple of neighbors that were crew on Major airlines.

milo

Milo has mad some excellent comments for you to work with. To his comments I would add this. Everyone wants to work for the big glamorous air lines. The smaller airlines are easier to get your foot in the door. Try the regional airlines. Keep trying, if the person telling you no gets to recognise you, he or she might respond to your persistence. Good look.

There are other factors to consider as well. You didn't mention if you're male or female. The reason why I raised this point is that there have been many cases of drunken male passengers molesting female flight attendants. How will you react to such provocation? Will you lose your temper, or will you quietly sneak away to report the assault to the Captain? This is one question the interviewer may well ask you.

How well do you relate to people? A flight attendant is sometimes harrassed by assholes who think they have the right to push the cabin crew around simply because he paid for his ticket. A flight attendant in my country was recently assaulted by the jealous wife of a millionaire simply because she smiled at him. Fortunately, she won a lawsuit against the millionaire's wife because the company backed her up. Unfortunately, there are small airlines who won't dare antagonize a big shot in this way.

I hope you don't think I'm trying to discourage you. I'm simply letting you be aware of some of the problems you may face, and through them, help you understand that having a sweet, pleasant personality and the patience of Job are essential requirements for a flight attendant. One final thing, you need to be able to maintain a cool head under extreme pressure so that you will react logically instead of panicking in an emergency.