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You’ll find all the requirements for becoming a Cabin Crew Member under ‘Job’ below. If you pass our assessment, you will also need to undergo a medical examination to determine that you are fit to fly.

To become a Zurich-based Cabin Crew Member you’ll need to be fluent in German and English, while further languages are an advantage. You’ll also receive an allowance on top of your salary if you’re additionally proficient (to conversation level) in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or a maximum of one further official European language.

To become a Geneva-based Cabin Crew Member you’ll need to be fluent in French and English, while further languages are an advantage. You’ll also receive an allowance on top of your salary if you’re additionally proficient (to conversation level) in German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or a maximum of one further official European language.

• Your CV/résumé
• Your diploma certifying your completion of a three-year professional apprenticeship (EFZ) or your higher school-leaving certificate (such as a Matura/baccalaureate diploma) 
• Your employers’ references/testimonials for the past five years

A cover letter or letter of motivation is not required.

At various times each month. Once you have successfully completed a brief video interview with us, we’ll give you access to the dates and times of our upcoming assessments so that you can choose one to attend.

We’ll send you an email telling you whether your application has been successful within a few days.

For the application, make sure you have all the documents we need (CV/résumé, school/apprenticeship diploma(s) and employers’ references/testimonials for the past five years) and upload these to our Lufthansa Career Portal. This will give us a good overview of your strengths and abilities. We’ll then contact you shortly thereafter.

To best prepare for our assessment day, try to get as extensive a picture as you can of the Cabin Crew Member’s duties and their daily working life, and also of SWISS, our company. You’ll find lots of relevant information here on our various social media channels. We also offer monthly careers information events, which you can register to attend.

Once you have been definitively assigned to a flight attendant basic training course. Please note that you will also have to undergo (and pass) an aeromedical examination with our SWISS Medical Services to confirm your fitness to fly. Your contract of employment will only become valid once you have done so. Even if you have previously been a Cabin Crew Member at another airline, you must still undergo and pass our SWISS aeromedical examination.

Yes. We offer a range of part-time employment models.

We offer a wide range of models.

In some of these, your part-time days off are distributed throughout the calendar month. You can also choose different degrees of employment.

We also have part-time models that give you whole non-working months, spread throughout the calendar year. Here you can choose anything from one to six non-working months.

Yes. Your hotel accommodation and your transfers between the airport and the hotel during your duty travel abroad are all arranged and paid for by SWISS. You will also receive an expenses allowance for the costs of your food and drink while you are away on SWISS rotation duties. The amount of such expenses will be based on the length of the duty rotation.

Yes. SWISS makes all the arrangements for the issue of the Cabin Crew Member’s uniform and its regular cleaning, and pays all the associated costs.

Yes, there are. These are all specified in detail in our Uniform Regulations.

Tattoos: SWISS imposes no restrictions on the colours, shapes, sizes or extents of crew members’ tattoos. But there are restrictions on the parts of the body which may be tattooed. Tattoos on the face or the ears are not permitted; and tattoos on the hand must have a maximum diameter of 7 mm each, with a maximum of two tattoos per hand. Larger hand tattoos are not permitted.

Tattoos which are defamatory in any way are also prohibited.

Not permitted: Tattoos with swear words, or tattoos relating or alluding to violence, drugs, sexism, pornography, politics or discrimination.

Piercings: Helix piercings in the upper part of the ear are permitted. Maximum length and diameter: 1 cm.

Nose studs and nose rings: A nose stud or nose ring up to a maximum diameter of 5 mm is permitted.

Not permitted: Septum rings

Mouth jewellery/tooth jewellery: Mouth or tooth jewellery up to 2 mm in size is permitted.

Irregular working hours, long flight duties on certain routes, frequent time zone changes and working at weekends and on public holidays offer a lot of variety, but they do demand resilience and adaptability, too. Rosters can also be changed at short notice, while accommodating vacation requests can be less than straightforward. So a lot of flexibility is expected of our entire cabin crew corps.

It’s not a must. But your flight duties will begin or end any time between 05:00 and 23:00 – times at which there may be little or no public transport available. And long journeys to and from work can also be a burden in themselves.

Also, if you are on standby duty, you must be able to report for work at the airport if necessary within 75 minutes.

Our Cabin Crew Members receive their rosters for each calendar month on the 18^th of the previous month.

You can instruct new Cabin Crew Members, undergo further training to become one of our Maîtres de Cabine or apply to serve in our First Class cabins.

You’ll also find that the day-to-day working life of a SWISS Cabin Crew Member is very varied and covers a wide range of fields, from the various features of our inflight service to safety and security issues and basic medical training. So your time as a SWISS Cabin Crew Member will add tangible value to your CV, which will also be of use to you should you later opt for another career.