{"id":1703,"date":"2012-11-06T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2012-11-06T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T07:14:13","slug":"interview-with-a-saudi-airline-flight-attendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2012\/11\/interview-with-a-saudi-airline-flight-attendant.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview With A Saudi Airline Flight Attendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Where are you from, Ahmed?<\/em> Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I&#8217;m Jeddah based.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are the requirements to become a flight attendant for Saudi Airlines?<\/em> High school minimum, English language (reading writing and spoken fluent), minimum age is 19, maximum age is 35, flight attendant diploma or courses has a priority.<\/p>\n<p><em>How long was your flight attendant training?<\/em> 3 months. But the new procedure is 6 months.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s the best thing about being a flight attendant for Saudi Airlines?<\/em> Benefits. We receive 14 salary per year in addition housing and transportation allowances, many free tickets, 24 hour insurance for accidents, and social position.<\/p>\n<p><em>What is the average time on the job as a flight attendant for Saudi Airlines?<\/em> Retirement age 60 years or 40 years flying. Male flight attendants don&#8217;t have contracts. We are government employees. Female have an open contract. 25 years maximum.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are female flight attendants recruited from other countries?<\/em> Yes. We recruit from Morocco, Tunis , Egypt , Sudan , Ethiopia , Algiers , Albania , Bosnia , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Syria, Pakistan , India , Philippines , Malaysia , Indonesia and Bangladesh. We don&#8217;t have any flight attendants from Saudi Arabia or The Gulf Countries.<br \/>\n\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<br \/>\n<em>How do you think being a flight attendant in the United States differs from being one in Saudi Arabia?<\/em> Being a flight attendant in Saudi airlines is more secure then USA because we belong to the government and Ministry of Aviation and Defense. Nobody can fire you due to bankruptcy of the company. We receive a salary and benefits no matter what happens to the company.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">05\/11\/12 Heather Poole<\/span>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2012\/11\/05\/galley-gossip-interview-with-a-saudi-airline-flight-attendant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gadling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are you from, Ahmed? Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I&#8217;m Jeddah based. What are the requirements to become a flight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}