Hey guys, It's Kaykrizz and welcome back to my channel!
Today's video is question posted on my YouTube channel by Sarah Leaf.
"Can you share your experience about flight attendant training? Thanks a lot!"
If you are wondering about how the flight attendant training goes, keep on watching!
If you are a flight attendant to be and you are waiting for your training.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
What are the things that you should know about flight attendant training
Always be on time is most crucial in this industry.
You can never be late on your reporting time. Some companies are very
strict that they will only 3x that you are late in a job or
your flight then that will be counted as a "NO SHOW" or like you didn't show up for
work and after you didn't show up for work required times then you will be
terminated. BYE BYE! Some training especially in the Philippines
If you are late in the training class even if it's not a flight, even if it's
just you're going to talk about things that is in the plane then it is counted.
If you showed up late 3x then you are out of the flight attendant training school.
It is that harsh man! Always be on time. The truth is I was
never on time when I was in school and in college and at my work in a call center.
Being a flight attendant, I actually have to change this habit and
I've never been late at all or if I was late then I will move heaven and earth
just to be there on time. I will show up with no makeup, I will show up with
nothing but I was there! Be on-time guys. NO "FILIPINO TIME" ALLOWED.
You know what I mean.
The next thing, You must be wondering if flight attendants and
training are getting paid and the answer to that is... YES!!!
everyone is getting paid the thing is it's not the same as the payment with
regular flight attendants it depends because some companies they paid the basic payment for
the flight attendant trainees some companies don't even get to basic payment
it's like just an allowance. When I was back in the Philippines, it's like we
only have a very small amount of money. If I were
you and you are an independent woman and you want to switch your courage of
flight attendant career for the first two months you better have some savings to
keep you afloat
the allowance is good but you might need more things like some emergency things
allowance will not cover it. It's just for your basic needs
girls. That's it for the first two months. You can have either a basic
payment or allowance which is lower than the basic payment. The next thing is, what are the
kind of things that you are going to be expecting to study when you are on the
training. I'll just mention a few things here. First things first, You
have to know the aviation terms, Just like in nursing
the medical field they have a different language so you have to study the
medical terms. In this industry you have to study the aviation terms like
Alpha Bravo Charlie Huston... Mayday! Mayday! We have a problem! These are the terms they use to represent a letter
A is for ALPHA, B is for BRAVO. People do this so they
won't be confused when they're communicating through the radio because
if you are up in the air
your means of communication to the ground is through the radio and sometimes
accents and different sound glitches and you can't afford to have
mistakes when you are there up in the air and the lives of four hundred people are
on you. It's so much better to communicate through this so that's why
they have represented every letter with a name like Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
I wanna watch movie. You gotta have to do a lot of memorization.
You have to memorize the cities of the countries that you are going to.
major ones that your company's flying to also there are airport codes like
for example Manila is MNL, Cebu is CEB
Those are the things you have to
study for, also time conversion to GMT how does that work. You gotta have to
study for that. Basically it's not a major thing. It's not a pass or fail.
It's nice to know as well If you are going to be a professional FA
It is important that you know these things.
company policy the kind of culture that your company is and what kind of things
are acceptable and unacceptable so that's important
your company's vision mission that's also very important so you lived through that.
It's important to have a mission in life and reason for the
things that you do.
better get to know your company and what your company's mission and vision
because you are going to be representing them. The most difficult part of training
for me training school is trying to study the Airplane. You have to study
every equipment that is there. How to use it. The steps, the checks. Information overload!!!
3 days you have to familiarize yourself with this aircraft. How many
exits they have, what is in there, how use the doors, different drills
what to do in an emergency and man it was tough! Actually the flight
attendant training in the Philippines if you don't get 95% on your all of
your exams. Written and oral exam that you are out.
You can only fail in the exam 6x on the sixth time that you failed and
you have their remedial test then you are out of there well that means you're not
studying enough because anybody who studies and concentrate and focus on the things that
they have to learn then they can do it and also being a flight attendant safety
is always a priority we don't study how to make the coffee. Excuse me!
We also don't study how to pour it the perfect way and how to look nice and how
to look be pretty on the plane. We study how to save lives in case of an emergency.
We study how to fight hijackers and how to identify high-risk people on the plane
Safety is the thing that is very important for airlines
You really have to pass this this training because you are
the only ones gonna be up there in the air you don't have police on your side
you don't have a security guard so it's gonna be you! You're gonna be the security guard
you're gonna be the one in charge on the plane. You better pass all the exams on
safety. I think I have thoroughly emphasized the importance of the safety
training and learning about the airplane. Other things that you need to
know on the training is the service. It is going to be taught to you how to do the
sequence of service, how to identify once different things that is available in a
menu, how to deal with an irate passenger. Call center girls
you know this
just exactly how to do the routine of the work for example in the beginning
part of Service , the boarding stations and how you will be doing the service
will you give snacks first or meals first. The best part of that
training is you get to taste all the food in the airplane! This is one of the
best thing that I enjoyed on flight attendant training. There will be one day
where you get to sample all the food that is in the plane specially in the business
sections so you would be familiar how the food tastes and when your passenger asked you
how is the chicken, what will be your recommendation then he will have an
answer to that. It's like field day for us. Yay! free food!
Next thing that might concern is every flight attendant go
through a swimming training. It is much more difficult in the Philippines we used to
have three days of learning the drills.
You have to pass it. They will teach you how to put on the life jackets just activate it and jump
in the water and then you have to do different
signals you will be using people to make a circle or make an
X and you will also have to try the raft.
In any case that your airplane will be the ditching in the water and you have to use
the raft to save lives then you know you are familiar with it how to get on
it where are the things in it where the emergency equipment inside the raft.
Most people are asking if you don't know how to swim then can you fail
I can tell you one thing as long as you jump when the instructor asked you
to jump on the pool you have to jump even if you don't know how to swim.
even if you know just one stroke you have to jump and do that one stroke that you know
even if the instructor is asking you to do breaststroke, backstroke.
The important thing is that you jump. I actually have a batchmate
He felt that he was drowning in the middle of the training and our
instructor had to save him. It was actually ok to
continue on with the training but for him it's not good. He was
traumatized and he really don't like water and don't want to swim so he quit
the training and we were so sad
Come on! You went all through the exams, tests
and all the cramming and all the information overload when it comes
to the swimming you just gave up. My advice to you guys who does not know how to swim,
then learn how to swim. it's a good life skill anyway and if you don't know and
you're already on your track to the flight attendant training just jump girl
or boy just jump and then you will make it through and your batchmates are
going to help you out. I'm sure of that.
That's about the swimming part of the training and finally I would like to tell you all
that flight attendant training is the place where you have to enjoy the
feeling of entering a new world and you get to have new friends
who quarrels sometimes, but that's family and this batch mates that you have on the
training the person sitting next to you, on your right on your left on your behind, your
front those people are the people who's going to be your family in the industry that will
be your batch mates and those people are supposed to I don't know but most of the
time they have your back you know when you are now graduate and you are going
to be there
on the industry those people that you'll meet are you going to know and you
might feel a little bit intimidated and scared and you may feel the normal
things The politics and everything all of that stuffs then your batchmates will be there to
help you My advise to you guys is to be good to your batchmates. Have fun!
Try to make friends with them and you don't know you might just
find friends for life from there
this happened to me. All my batchmates not all of them will be your besty but you
just open yourself up and you'll never know you may find your new BFF on this training
be family, be friendly, be kind to your batchmates and treat them as family
together you will enter the world of flying at the same time so that is something special
This is too long again so I will just like to say to all of you guys who are
curious about how the flight attendant training goes I hope that you find this
video of little helpful, informative and as usual inspiring. I love you guys who always
comments that you are inspired by my videos please keep on watching and give
this video a like and share it your friends and write down below in the comments what
other kind of questions that you have and I would love to answer them.
this is my hobby and I love doing this
and I hope that for the other people who are waiting for their flight attendant
training that is very exciting and I hope you guys enjoy to the fullest
extent. Study hard but also make friends and just enjoy the experience it is once in
a lifetime and you know once you are already flying you'll never get to see those
people again or it's very hard with the Scheduling so it's time to
enjoy! Soak in all the magic. That's all for this for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it. Gives me a like
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have some suggestions for the flight attendant training as well put it down below or if
you're a flight attendant and you have an experience just share to the community here so that
everyone will help one another isn't that good? Giving out love out there and
information to people and inspire people that's this channel's mission
I hope that you guys participate
give me a shout out down below if you also want to know more things if you
have another question that you would request me to make a video of I would
love to do it. That is for this video hope you guys enjoyed it. For those who
are starting their training, Congratulations and I wish you all the
best and will fly with you soon! --BYE!!!