Author Shen Ruisi, this is the American reporter in Houston.
Chinese flight attendants are all beauties, but you can often see Aunt Kong and Uncle Kong on American planes. So what qualifications do you need to become a flight attendant/flight attendant in the United States?
1. Education, American Airlines does not require flight attendants to have a high education. As long as you have an American high school diploma or a certificate of equivalent education, you can do it. Once you are selected by the airline, they will focus on training newcomers for 3 to 8 weeks. This is necessary and cannot be replaced by other courses.
2. How to register is very simple. As long as you meet some basic requirements, such as age, height, vision, nationality and customer service experience. You can submit your resume to airlines through online submission, and all airlines have links to submit resumes on their official websites. Some airlines will arrange a group interview first. There are also websites in the United States that specifically target flight attendants to help them modify their resumes and prepare for interviews.
3. What are the requirements? Height: Usually the minimum height cannot be lower than 5`0-5`1 (152cm-155cm), and the maximum height cannot exceed 5`8-6`3 (177cm-192cm). Different airlines may be slightly different. Many companies do not even have height requirements, but they will require applicants to be able to get to some specified locations in the cabin.
4. Vision: There are no special requirements. You can wear glasses. As long as the signing person's vision can reach the specified vision after wearing glasses.
5. Weight: There is no hard limit on weight in American airlines. As long as your height and weight are within a reasonable range.
6. Education: As long as you graduate from high school, you don’t need to receive training in advance.
7. Age: American Airlines has no maximum age limit. You can register as long as you become an adult (different companies have different requirements, and the minimum age limit is between 18 and 21 years old.) Because there is no age limit, no matter how old you are, you can continue to work as long as you think you can.
8. Customer service experience: Some airlines require applicants to have certain customer service experience, but as long as you tell them during the interview that you can understand and effectively meet the needs of customers, you will basically be qualified.
9, 10-year background check: You must collect fingerprints and drug monitoring through background checks on your past 10 years.
10, Physical Examination and Allergy Test: Once selected, the airline will ask you to do a physical examination and allergy test to ensure that you are healthy and can get the job done.
11. Appearance: Flight attendants are ordinary people who look like they do extraordinary jobs. There are no appearance requirements. The interviewer only needs to maintain good personal hygiene.
12. Nationality requirements, not American? It doesn't matter, as long as you have a legal work visa, you can become a flight attendant on a US airline without any restrictions on entering and leaving the United States.
Advantages: Once you become a flight attendant, you will not only take the plane for free, but your family and even friends will get great discounts, but not just the airlines you work for. Flight attendants can receive discounts from routes around the world, including many tourist attractions. The scheduling of American flight attendants usually takes 3 to 4 days and rests for three or four days. Flight attendants can use this time to work part-time or reunite with their families.
14. Salary, the salary of flight attendants, is different for every airline. It usually ranges from $13 to $50 per hour, depending on qualifications. Most airlines will arrange no less than 65 to 80 hours of working hours for each flight attendant every month, and they will get the money regardless of whether they have enough time or not. Flight attendants also have home leave allowances, which means that the airline will pay them a certain amount of subsidy based on the number of hours they leave their home. How about
? It sounds very tempting, right? After reading it, I want to be a flight attendant. Of course, all walks of life have their own difficulties. For example, being a flight attendant not only requires dealing with strange passengers, but it is terrible if you accidentally encounter an accident.
But here I want to talk about why there are not so many rules and regulations as a flight attendant in the United States.Because the United States is a country that claims to be equal to everyone before work opportunities, this country has also issued special regulations that if you are treated unfairly in the workplace due to discrimination, you can take the other party to court. Because of gender discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, racial discrimination, appearance discrimination, etc., as long as one succeeds, the company can be ruined. Although this cannot completely eliminate all kinds of discrimination in society, people will still restrain themselves in the workplace. Therefore, if there are no special requirements, such as being too short to complete the required work, or being too fat to pass in the corridor of the plane, airlines generally do not have any rigid requirements for height, weight and other appearance conditions.
Everyone has bias, but don’t let prejudice turn into discrimination to affect your judgment of others.
