Flight Attendant Job Training School

SkyWest Airlines Flight Attendant

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:54:49 +0000

Hi Wendy, Oh yes, I’m still flying and I love it more everyday! SkyWest is an amazing company to work for. My seniority is 1150 out of almost 2000 already! We’ve been picking up more flying from the UAL side and we’re opening a LAX domicile in October. I plan on working until I’m old and my walker doesn’t fit down the aisle!! I’ve been based in Fresno for just over a year now. I’ve met some wonderful people as well as a few celebrities, Ricky Schroeder, Rick Springfield, Huey Lewis, Steadman Graham (Oprah’s boyfriend) Donny Osmond, Cat Cora -a few times- the Iron Chef from Food network (lives in santa barbara) and Carter Osterhouse the carpenter on Trading Spaces. Life is really Great, I stand in the Galley after parking the cart and say a prayer of Gratitude everyday for being allowed to do what I Love! it’s a wonderful feeling to be doing what I always dreamed about! It all started that weekend in Orlando with you! I am forever grateful to you for giving me the courage and confidence to pursue this dream of mine. I still keep in touch with Maria (she’s still flying for Air tran) and Debbie (she’s flying for NWA). I pray everything is great with you and yours, take care and I’ll keep in touch, Much Love to you Wendy!

Your Student,

Rocky

SkyWest Airlines Flight Attendant

Can I sign up with a school and learn to become a Sr. Flight Attendant right away?

admin — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:57:31 +0000

Absolutely not! Anyone who tells you that you can sign up with their school and learn to be a Sr. Flight Attendant obviously doesn’t know the industry! That is NOT how it works. Everyone who goes to work for an airline starts at the bottom in seniority and works their way up in seniority. Only the airlines can give you their special training to teach you how fly as one of their Sr. Flight Attendants.

Continental Airlines Flight Attendant

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:43:26 +0000

I would highly recommend for all future flight attendants to take the Flight Attendant Express course. The reason is straightforward; you have a competitive edge on the recruitment process. When an open house attracts over 250 applicants and only 25 openings, where do you fit in? I have attended many open houses where an overwhelming amount of furloughed flight attendants and applicants with no experience at all are competing for the same job. Wendy Stafford assesses your strengths and weaknesses and builds your interviewing skills to ensure you have prerequisites for what those recruiters are looking in a candidate. It is also imperative that this course goes above and beyond any book published out there. The ingredient is in the human interface and visual perception that the course provides. That is worth the investment in your future career, for a job you will love to come to work for everyday!
Sincerely,

Maureen Cecilia Weaver

Continental Airlines Flight Attendant

Flight Attendant Express Graduate, Sept. 2003

JetBlue Flight Attendant

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:40:35 +0000

Dear Flight Attendant Express:

I cannot thank you enough for the valuable training and knowledge I received from your training course. Thanks to you, Wendy, and your valuable seminar, I have been able to pursue and acquire my dream job as a flight attendant with a major airline. I interviewed with Jetblue Airways March 18, 2004 and started my training on April 14, 2004!! I have been happily flying ever since. I love this job. It is the best job in the world! Thanks to you, I became the flight attendant that I had always dreamed about being. Hopefully, soon I will be flying with other new flight attendants that have traveled through your course. Thanks again.

Gail Bohannon

JetBlue Airways Corporation

ATA Airlines Flight Attendant

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:31:44 +0000

I have been hired by two major airlines and I owe it all to Flight Attendant Express. I took the seminar and they were very helpful in giving me all the pertinent information that was required.

Margarita A Lavezzo
ATA

Don’t Let Anyone Dash Your Dreams!

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:24:46 +0000

It has recently come to our attention that people who may be interested in becoming flight attendants are being discouraged by well-meaning friends or family members, from pursuing a flight attendant career. If you let someone dash your hopes, you may not have the passion required for the job after all. And usually those who want to destroy your dreams, don’t have any dreams of their own!

There are also flight attendants out there that will tell you that you don’t need a class to get you into the airlines. Keep in mind that the competition has gotten much tougher now; a few years ago, airlines would hire about 10% of all who applied - now it is only 3 to 5%, and the failure rate in training is over 30 per cent! If you get invited to training and don’t succeed, you are back where you started.

If you are turned down by an airline, you will need to wait 6 months to a year to re-apply with that company, so it’s important to get it right the first time - do you really want to take a chance on going to an interview without preparation?

How Can You Teach Me All I Need in Just 4 Days?

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:24:05 +0000

Our class is not just 4 days – there is a study guide you will get before class that requires 2 full weeks of home study. Many people have seen companies who advertise Flight Attendant training and their courses last for 12 weeks or more. These companies are probably good for those who aspire to be travel agents or airline reservations agents, but have very little in the way of flight attendant preparation and are taught by travel agents - YOU DON’T WANT A TRAVEL AGENT TRAINING YOU TO BE A FLIGHT ATTENDANT! These companies typically tell callers that airlines want you to be cross-trained – not true! Airlines are more concerned about your customer service experience than whether or not you know how to book a reservation or a cruise! Flight Attendants do not do reservations or cruises, and you are wasting your money (usually $5,000 - $7,000) paying for these things.

Get training from the Flight Attendant experts - all of our flight attendants have had years of experience and we are in contact with airlines on a daily basis. We are also members in good standing of the Better Business Bureau. Don’t be fooled - come to the best of the best to learn properly.

What Salary does a Flight Attendant Make?

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:04:04 +0000

Flight attendant salaries can vary from airline to airline; national and major airlines usually have a higher pay scale than regional carriers. You can expect to earn anywhere from $20,000 to $30,000 your first year, with an added $5,000 - 8,000 for per diem or expense money. After your first year, the pay rapidly increases and after 10 years you can make up to $50,000 at some airlines. There are other things, too, that can get you more pay, including flying senior or lead flight attendant, international flying and simply working more hours. You get guarantee pay for the first 65 - 75 hours and any flying time after that is at a higher level.

While you must earn enough to make a living, working as a flight attendant is not something you do for the money - you do it for the adventure! As time goes on and your seniority increases, you may even be able to fly less and still earn a full-time salary. And with all the free travel you will benefit from, it’s as though you are making more money because you don’t have to spend as much for traveling as you normally would.

Can you Guarantee Me a Job?

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:56:01 +0000

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE CAN GUARANTEE YOU A JOB!
Do not get involved in any program where you are told there is a guarantee for employment. If someone tells you this, they are obviously running a scam and cannot help you; there is positively no way anyone can determine how you will perform in an interview, no matter how much information you get. But we come as close as anyone can in guaranteeing success. We give you the tools you need to succeed, so it’s up to you as to how determined you are to do what is necessary to achieve your goals. You MUST study and you MUST practice the suggestions we give you, and you MUST pursue applying to airlines and going to your interviews. It is also necessary that you have very good command of the English language also, due to the fact that airline terminology is very technical.

What are the requirements to enter your course?

admin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:53:44 +0000

We require that you meet the basic flight attendant requirements as listed in the link on the first page of our website.

You must be 18 years old by the time you attend our class; while there are a few airlines that hire 18-year-olds, most airlines require that you be 19, 20 or even 21 years old, and it can be challenging for us to place you if you are not flexible.
There is no maximum age requirement; only that you are able to perform the duties of a flight attendant.
Flight attendant training demands stamina, flexibility and dependability as well as good test-taking skills.

As it is pricey and time consuming to train each flight attendant to the exceptional standards of airlines, we would like to ask you to carefully consider all that is involved in fulfilling the commitment required in becoming a flight attendant. The training, although reasonable and achievable for most applicants, can be a challenge and is filled with long hours of hard work. In the months following training, you may be further challenged with long hours, erratic schedules, and dealing with a wide range of unpredictable personalities and situations. This is a wonderfully rewarding career, but is not for everyone. If present circumstances or situations in your life would prevent you from giving 100% to an airline, we would encourage you to reconsider a flight attendant career.