How to become a Private Jet Flight Attendant, how to get hired & how to do the job - Part 1 of 3.

How to become a corporate flight attendant, how to get hired and how to do the job..

Without a shadow of a doubt the 3 questions we get asked the most. In fact several times a week and from people stretching from the US, Europe, South Africa and all the way across to Japan.

The second question is the only subject we chose not to cover in our book The Corporate Flight Attendant’s Handbook, because there is no one answer.

As a 1 of 3 posts we will discuss the “How to become a corporate flight attendant” here first.

So first of all, it depends.. In the US you’ll need cabin safety training, in South Africa you’ll need a SACAA license, in the United Kingdom and Europe you don’t actually need any training and the rest of the world is a mix of these. Few places are as lenient as Europe and the UK, where you're not actually referred to as a flight attendant when you work on a private or corporate jet. The title is "In-Flight Service Personnel".

Instead of trawling the internet and asking this question on various forums and facebook groups, the best thing you can do is to Google the Civil Aviation Authority in the country you live in, find a contact phone number and call them.

Being a corporate flight attendant is a global job, but the requirements are incredibly different from country to country. If you ask the question on Facebook or online forums, you will get answers from people that are usually only aware of their own country’s rules and regulations, therefore the answers might not be relevant to you.

Call your own national aviation authority and simply ask or ask to be put in contact with the relevant person.

Another great option is to call a local private jet operator and simply ask. After +20 years in business aviation we’ve found that there are plenty of people out there willing to help, so don’t worry, grab the phone and simply call and ask. By making the first call to a local operator, you might gain a point of contact for when you later come to look for a job..

How to get a job and how to do the job, that’s a different issue. We’ll talk about that in the next 2 posts.

Check out our 150 page handbook and the separate 14 page checklist if you want to have a read of what the job actually is. We walk you through the industry, a day in the life of a corporate flight attendant and simply a full on 150 pages of how to do the job from the moment you’re told you’ve got a flight and all the way to kicking off your shoes in the hotel.

The book serves like a recipe. We're pretty confident that you would have a successful day doing the job if you followed the book from start to finish.

Flying is amazing, if you’re here because you’re tempted to try this – Go for it, where else can you get paid to travel the world on a private jet!