How To Become A Flight With No Aviation Experience

Back in February of 2025, I applied to be a flight attendant. What seemed like a quick application, became a process and experience I'll never forget. My friend had recently become a flight attendant and talked to me about applying for about a solid year. One random weekday I decided to google search “flight attendant jobs”. I was quickly met with a page listing links to various openings in major airlines. I reached out to my friend for some advice, and here’s how it went.

It was suggested that I polished up my resume to emphasize my hospitality experience and include some ATS verbiage. I read the qualifications and specifics of what they were looking for and included that as well. I reached out to my friend to double check my format and jobs I listed. Then I put it through ChatGPT before I made my final revision. Once complete, I created a cover letter and submitted it to two major Airlines.

Shortly after, I received an email asking me to complete an assessment. While doing the assessment, I answered questions using the STAR method. A structured technique for answering behavioral interview questions (e.g."Tell me about a time when...") by detailing a specific Situation Task Action Result. While also keeping in mind this job is all about Safety, more than it’s about servicing food and beverages. A few weeks went by and I hadn’t heard anything, which made me feel like I wasn’t a good fit.

Then May arrived and I received an email inviting me to a virtual interview! I was extremely excited since this was my first time interviewing with a company like this! Which funny enough everything that could go wrong definitely did. My computer wouldn’t log into the virtual rooms they created for the interview. Then when I finally got in, the mic wasn’t working correctly! It was all a disaster! Disappointed and discouraged because I had logged out and tried to log back in, for me not to be let back in the interview.

I emailed tech support, which surprisingly responded the same day! They looped in the hiring manager and immediately scheduled another interview for the following week. That following week everything went perfect! I completed the interview confident I’d be moving to the next step, A face to face interview. NOT! A few weeks went by and no email inviting me back. A little over a month after the virtual interview, I got a notification saying they were taking a break from hiring because it was entering their busy season. So back to waiting to know if they even want to interview me.

Later that week, I received an email from them saying if I didn’t want to wait for the process to continue I could respond saying I was no longer interested in the opportunity. I decided to wait and see what would happen, if I made it to a face to face interview or not. Ready for what my face to face was like? Read Flight Attendant Face To Face!