Posted on 12/15/2018 3:05:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s been nearly an entire year since Emirates reopened recruitment for new cabin crew and since that time the airline has held hundreds of Open Day’s around the world. Emirates even trialled a brand new but short-lived recruitment process and partnered with a specialist aviation recruitment agency as it attempted to fill a massive hole in its cabin crew workforce. But as we fast approach 2019, has Emirates finally hired enough cabin crew?
We ask that question because as many eager candidates will no doubt already have already noticed, the number of Open Day’s currently advertised on the official Emirates recruitment website has suddenly dwindled to a mere handful. As it stands, there aren’t any Open Day’s organised for January 2019 and normally we’d expect preliminary Open Day information published at least a month in advance.
As it stands, Emirates is still accepting online applications. By submitting an online application, candidates can expect to be shortlisted and then invited to an Invitation Only event – although it’s not clear whether recruiters have any such events in the pipeline at the moment.
There’s also the chance to apply through OSM Aviation – they are a specialist aviation recruitment agency based in Oslo who were hired by Emirates in the Summer to assist in the recruitment process. However, OSM Aviation has only been holding recruitment events in a handful of countries, including parts of Scandinavia and Spain so this application route might not necessarily be appropriate for the vast majority of candidates.
If Emirates does plan to suspend cabin crew recruitment then it will be a massive change of direction for the airline. In October, we learned that the airline was around 800 cabin crew short of the level it expected to be at and that was at a time that so many existing crew were nearing the end of their contracts that a resignation waitlist had been implemented.
Emirates was forced to suspend cabin crew recruitment for nearly a year during 2017 after a downturn in the airline’s fortunes, including high profile incidents including the so-called “laptop ban” imposed by U.S. authorities. Business has picked up since then, although senior executives have warned of potential headwinds on the horizon, including fluctuations in key currency markets and the current high price of oil.
Unfortunately, Emirates wouldn’t be drawn on whether cabin crew recruitment would continue in 2019. Generally speaking, we’ve traditionally seen the Summer months to be the busiest for new recruit ab-initio training with a natural lull during the Winter. It could well be that the start of 2019 is following this timeline and that we’ll see a trickle of Open Day’s advertised in the next few weeks.
Find out where Emirates has upcoming Open Day’s in our Step-by-Step recruitment guide.
Best looking women in the air...not the overweight slobs and fags employed by United or Delta.
Emirates has a geographical advantage that will let them continue to operate on the old hub system and thus use large aircraft that have low per passenger costs to operate.
This is good news for AirBus since they didn’t build their new giant to be a cargo hauler like Boeing did the venerable and excellent 747.
Darn, I missed their hiring window. And I was a shoe-in, too...a 67 year old white male who only speaks English and doesn’t suffer fools lightly.
Monica, is that you?
Now,this is a cabin crew.https://youtu.be/chhh4-2plYY
I do not fly much now since 9/11 but do remember that cabin crews when I was younger were always exceptionally attractive. Now American cabin crews are rather not as stimulating lol.
Moslems, in Moslem garb. No thanks.
Good. They need not be ugly but looks shouldn’t be that important. And once again, that ignores the female passenger....or don’t they have female customers?
Meanwhile, restaurants are hiring unattractive people who also add in unappetizing accoutrements like tongue rings and nose rings. Makes ALOT more sense to discriminate against these disgusting fools.
Not only are they the most attractive FAs of any airline I've ever been on, they have to be both assertive and diplomatic because they have to knock heads with everyone from Arab potentates to Indian "dalits" who've never seen a flush toilet before who are being flown to the UAE to do the manual labor the Emiratis won't do for themselves.
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