Emirates readies to recruit 5,000 cabin crew from six continents in 2024

Emirates is celebrating the new year and the imminent arrival of its spanking new fleet of Airbus A350s with a global cabin crew recruitment drive with a difference. The 5,000 new joiners will ensure the airline’s commitment to offering the world’s best inflight experience maintains a steady course. The recruitment drive is designed primarily for […]

Qatar Airways Introduces its Next Phase of Digital Transformation by Empowering Cabin Crew with Smart Onboard Functionality

Qatar Airways has introduced an in-house application that enables Cabin Crew to deliver personalised experiences to passengers. In its initial phase, the application offers real-time insights on flight information, and customer and service information. This allows Cabin Crew to view passengers’ profiles, including privilege club members and oneworld members, as well as all special service […]

Recruitment of aircrew at City Airlines begins

The Lufthansa Group’s newest airline, City Airlines, is preparing for its operational launch in summer 2024. The new airline is getting its flight operations ready for take-off and is starting the recruitment process for cockpit and cabin crew with immediate effect. In particular, City Airlines is looking for experienced colleagues for the cockpit and the […]

Emirates cabin crew numbers cross 20,000 and counting

They say the journey is just as important as the destination and Emirates couldn’t agree more. At the heart of its customer journey are exceptional cabin crew who deliver the airline’s signature inflight experience at 38,000 feet. Emirates’ cabin crew team recently crossed a milestone and are now 20,000-strong, as the airline continues to recruit […]

Ensuring the mental wellbeing of cabin crew

They may be faced with staying away while health crises erupt, unsure of local rules or potential travel restrictions. Others will have been at home for a prolonged period and have become used to being there for young children or partners, making it a wrench to work away again. On top of this, the work […]

British Airways to offer cabin crew jobs for summer 2022

British Airways has announced that it will be opening its doors to new cabin crew recruits to work for the airline from Spring 2022 to help fly its summer schedule. The airline has already contacted people in the company’s existing talent pools, which holds the details of people who left the business last year but […]

Cabin crew to be better equipped to prevent human trafficking

United Nations efforts to prevent trafficking in persons took an important step forward today, with the launch of the new online training to support the implementation of the ICAO-OHCHR Guidelines for Training Cabin Crew on Identifying and Responding to Trafficking in Persons Developed in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner […]

Norwegian’s pilot and cabin crew companies in Sweden and Denmark file for bankruptcy

Due to the ongoing spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) most countries have advised against or have banned non-essential travel. The closure of borders and quarantine restrictions has effectively brought the entire airline industry to a halt. Consequently, almost all of Norwegian’s flight operations have been cancelled, while the costs for air crew remain. The pilots […]

Ryanair cabin crew are pushing ahead with ‘the biggest strike in the company’s history’

RYANAIR CABIN CREW members from five European countries will go on strike on 28 September, threatening hundreds of flights, a Belgian union said. Staff from Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal will stage a stoppage on the Irish no-frills airline, the CNE union said, after several European labour unions met in Brussels. “Unfortunately, discussions […]