Corporate Flight Attendant vs. Airline Flight Attendant

Most people who become a flight attendant end up working for an airline. Many don't know that there is also an option to work as a corporate flight attendant. In most cases, a corporate flight attendant make a lot more money than those flight attendants working for an airline. Most corporate flight attendants have airline flight attendant background experience. Some corporate flight departments require a lot more qualifications and experience than most airlines hiring flight attendants.

Corporate flight attendant jobs can be found everywhere even in a not so big of a city. If there is a head quarter for a large company with a flight department flying an aircraft that hold more than just a few passengers, then there is also a flight attendant position in that flight department.

Many corporate flight attendants jobs start at a salary of $40K+ per year and some make up to $100K. But getting one of the top corporate flight attendant jobs is not easy. A lot of people probably get lucky by living in an area where there is a flight department in need of a flight attendant or by social networking. And of course it doesn't help to apply even if you can't network, who knows, you might get lucky.

Once hired a corporate flight attendant usually will train for a few weeks at places like Flight Safety International for the specific aircraft that they will be working on. There is also a yearly recurrent that flight attendants have to attend to keep current on that aircraft.