10 Things to Look For When Choosing a Flight Attendant School

Any school that does this is setting you up for failure.  Nearly all undisclosed tattoos are eventually seen during airline training – and when they are, you are sent home.  No skin off the school who told you to do that – they already have your money. TAA requires you to disclose all your tattoos up front – and then guides you to only apply to the airlines you qualify for. 

This sounds like it would be a good thing to know before going to training – but we know that different airlines do CPR commands differently, and if you revert to the way you learned it first during a drill, you can fail training and be sent home – and it happens.  

TAA will teach you the most difficult part – the rhythm and how deep to do the compressions and leave the rest for the airlines.  We will never teach you anything you will have to unlearn. 

If it takes a school longer than a week in class to prepare you to interview successfully and pass your Flight Attendant training, they are doing something wrong.

TAA has been successfully preparing and placing Flight Attendants with the airlines with our 4-to-5-day program for 26 years. 

If a school is charging you that much, they are in it for the money – not for you. 

TAA’s highly successful program offers firefighting, CPR practice, safety demos, emergency evacuation drills, a full-size cabin trainer with a jump seat, galley, serving cart, and more.  We do it all for under $1,800 AND you get a private room and meals!

Part of what helps students pass airline training is being familiar with the basic equipment before going and knowing what to expect.  The more hands-on training and experience you can get before going, the better your chances of passing airline training.  If a school doesn’t have a cabin trainer or you don’t fight a fire, inflate a life vest and evacuate a plane, buckle into a jump seat, practice CPR on a dummy, handle safety equipment and safety demo equipment, etc.  DON’T GO THERE!  They might be able to “Get you Hired”, but they are not doing what they should to get you through airline training.

TAA offers ALL the above and more – no one prepares you to pass airline training better than we do.

This looks great for convenience’s sake, but don’t be fooled.  Online program graduates have an even lower chance of “Being Hired” to begin with, but that’s not the real problem.  It all goes back to the airline training preparation.  Without ANY hands-on training, you will have an even lower chance of passing your training – it’s not worth the gamble.

TAA will never offer an online-only / virtual program.  We care about YOU and want you to succeed.

Some schools are here today and gone tomorrow.  There goes your “Lifetime Placement”!  The longer a school has been around, the more likely it will remain around.

TAA’s Flight Attendant Program began in 1998 and was the FIRST accelerated FA program in the US.  We’ve been at it 16 years longer than everyone else.  That’s why recruiters tell us our program is the BEST!

Some “schools” are comprised of a couple of flight attendants (often retired) who got together and said – “Hey, let’s start a Flight Attendant Academy!”.  If they only have a couple of employees, their students will definitely be getting “one-on-one” almost everything, but what is the quality?

TAA’s Flight Attendant Program staff are a multi-racial/gender, diverse group of Flight Attendants, (most are current), with over 97 years of combined mainline, regional, and charter airline experience and 45 years’ instructing experience – and our one-on-one training is by design.

The couple of Flight Attendants who got together and started a “Flight Attendant Academy” can call themselves a school, I guess, but that gets back to the authenticity issue.

TAA is an actual FAA Certified Flight School, training pilots as well as Flight Attendants.  We are well known to the airlines with a reputation to match our longevity.