How The Recession Will Impact Cabin Crew Jobs In 2010

The recession has severely crippled the airline industry from all angles

. As a result, flights have grown cheaper and cheaper, with the in-flight freebies - cotton, candy, water bottles, food etc - being cut off brutally, and the space inside aircrafts seeming to grow smaller and smaller. Employees in the airlines felt the pinch even harder. As profits spiralled, so did salaries. Layoffs became a matter of chilling regularity. Thankfully, all this is expected to change in 2010. Prognosis looks good, as the recession has showed signs of slowing down and even reversing over the last quarter of 2009. The matter at hand is - how is this going to impact cabin crew jobs?Cabin crew jobs require highly specialised and niche training, which also effectively puts candidates out of the reckoning for other jobs. Therefore, training oneself for a cabin crew job means investing in a course that will lead to only one job, and one that is gruelling, mechanical and monotonous. Yet, of course, people continue to apply for cabin crew jobs - to the tune of 9000 applications for a single cabin crew job advertised in late 2009. Some people do it because they want quick money for a few years, others do it because they want to travel while they are young, and during the recession people have been doing it because they need a job - period.The good news is that the end of the recession has signalled the launch of multiple new low-cost airlines. While the recent shakeups in the industry have "freed" a lot of people from their jobs, these new airlines are generating new jobs at an extremely fast rate. The real question is this - will these new low-cost airlines want to re-employ older and experienced people, or will they try to invest in young, newly trained staff who will potentially stay with them longer? As far as current trends have been charted, the new airlines have kept their focus to young recruits, in the 21-25 age bracket. With demand for jobs skyrocketing, it is getting more and more advisable to take up a certificate course in cabin crew training. These courses are usually quite short in duration, between six months and a year at the most. Many companies offering cabin crew training also have tie-ups with airlines, which automatically gives their candidates an edge over others in this job market.In addition, college or university education - even when incomplete - also gets candidates preference. A full bachelor's degree can also put a flight attendant in contention for managerial or administrative positions later on. Some people even do an MBA or a post-graduate degree after a few years of working as a flight attendant, to re-enter the aviation industry in a more senior capacity later on. Customer service experience is also highly valued. The aviation industry is expected to see steady revival in this decade, after the terrible events of 9/11 and the recession, which had shocked people into avoiding air travel through the past decade. Applicants for cabin crew jobs now can definitely expect to see results.

How The Recession Will Impact Cabin Crew Jobs In 2010

By: Gen Wright

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