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Interviews for attendant positions focus on your interpersonal skills, ability to follow procedures, and your ability to work on a team. Expect questions that center around dealing with difficult or disruptive customers, how you deal with long flights and being away from home, and your customer service skills and experience.

Top Attendant Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question 1: How will you handle an emergency during a flight?

How to answer
How to answer: The interviewer wants to know that you can stay calm and follow protocol during an emergency. Discuss correct safety practices and how you will remain calm to make sound decisions. If you have experience in dealing with emergencies, a short example will help this answer.
Question 2

Question 2: How did you resolve a conflict with a demanding or irate customer?

How to answer
How to answer: Focus on how you resolve customer conflict while remaining calm and professional. If you've never been a flight attendant, highlight a time in a previous job where you had to address a customer or interpersonal issue.
Question 3

Question 3: How does our airline stand out from others?

How to answer
How to answer: Interviewers want to know if you will fit well with their airline's operations. Do your research beforehand and pay attention to its hubs, how many airports it serves, and the airline size. Mention the mission statement and company values and how they match what you're looking for in a flight attendant job.

27,197 attendant interview questions shared by candidates

Depending who you interview with, you may have straightforward interview type questions, or a conversation type interview. Self into Why you want to be an FA? Why Cathay Pacific? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What is a time you went above and beyond? What is one of your accomplishments?
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Flight Attendant

Interviewed at Cathay Pacific

3.5★
Mar 23, 2017

Depending who you interview with, you may have straightforward interview type questions, or a conversation type interview. Self into Why you want to be an FA? Why Cathay Pacific? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What is a time you went above and beyond? What is one of your accomplishments?

Why did I want to be a flight attendant? If I thought this type of job would be for me- being away for long periods of time? What did I know about the company? He was impressed with the knowledge and research I had done.
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Flight Attendant

Interviewed at Flight Services International

2.5★
Dec 5, 2018

Why did I want to be a flight attendant? If I thought this type of job would be for me- being away for long periods of time? What did I know about the company? He was impressed with the knowledge and research I had done.

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