Do flight attendants need academic qualifications?

It is understood that at present, the requirements of domestic aviation enterprises for academic qualifications are relaxed to high schools or technical secondary schools. Because a competent flight attendant must first have a strong sense of safety, when encountering safety problems during the flight, he needs to deal with them calmly and decisively. The professional teachers of Qingdao Qiushi Vocational and Technical College believe that relaxing the recruitment conditions will not reduce the service level. Relaxing flight attendant recruitment conditions can make aviation more grounded and close to the people, and it is also a way and process for the company to provide aviation services after the transition to low cost. Flight attendants, regardless of their educational background, will undergo rigorous training before taking up their posts, and can only get on the plane to work as crew members after obtaining the certification of initial training certificate for flight attendants.

According to Qingdao Qiushi Vocational and Technical College, most European airlines only require high school education when recruiting flight attendants. Foreign airlines actually pay more attention to the applicant's personality, communication skills, teamwork and other conditions. Teachers of Qingdao Qiushi Vocational and Technical College believe that being a flight attendant on the basis of ensuring safety has become the main theme of the cabin. From the process of cabin service, there is no profound professional theory and technical requirements, but the procedures, rules and processes of service are emphasized. In other words, most of the procedures, rules and processes of cabin service belong to be known. As for what should be known, students don't need to explore why this program, rules and processes are designed, let alone how they are formulated. They just need to know that they should strictly follow the procedures, rules and processes in the service process, especially in the safety facilities.

If flight attendants insist on understanding and mastering these processes and rules, or the knowledge behind them, then it needs to be cross-disciplinary or even cross-industry. Therefore, the professional teachers of Qingdao Qiushi Vocational and Technical College believe that after three years of professional study, it should be no problem to master these service procedures, rules and processes. It should be pointed out that colleges and universities should have a correct orientation when formulating the academic system, that is, it should be clear that cabin service is one of the main skills of flight attendants. As a skill, generally speaking, after three years of study and training, students can basically master it. Therefore, the academic system of cabin crew major should be enough. Facts have also proved this point. Most of the newly recruited flight attendants in many airlines are not flight attendants, but they can be employed after short-term training. Then it should not be a problem to train a flight attendant for the three-year academic system of Qingdao Qiushi Vocational and Technical College.