About This Role
United Airlines is hiring German-speaking Flight Attendants in Newark, with applicants completing six and a half weeks of initial training in Houston before receiving an assigned base and becoming full-time employees after successful completion. The role combines aircraft safety, emergency response, customer service, food and beverage service, and global travel on a flexible 24/7 schedule. United offers hourly flight pay, language-skill compensation, travel privileges, health and retirement benefits, training support, and a $1,000 bonus for successful training graduates.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Flight Attendants are responsible for ensuring the highest levels of safety while delivering outstanding customer service.
- They engage directly with customers, use sound judgment, resolve issues with understanding and compassion, influence customer loyalty, and represent United with pride and distinction.
- The role includes serving and selling food and beverages, including alcohol, operating required equipment and aircraft doors, assisting with luggage and emergency equipment, and communicating effectively during aircraft evacuations, security threats, delays, medical emergencies, severe weather, and turbulence.
- Flight Attendants must adapt to different customer-facing situations, maintain a positive and service-oriented demeanor, work independently and as part of a team, and remain dependable and timely.
- Because United operates a global route network, Flight Attendants must be available for assignments 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including nights, weekends, holidays, extended hours, short-notice reserve assignments, and periods away from their assigned base.
Requirements
- Applicants must be at least 21 years old when applying and must have a high school diploma or GED
- two or more years of college are preferred. At least one year of customer service experience in the service industry is required. Candidates must speak, read, write, and understand English fluently and must read and speak German fluently. They must communicate clearly and loudly enough to be heard during emergencies, hear all types and ranges of sound, and communicate effectively during evacuations, security threats, delays, medical emergencies, severe weather, and turbulence. Applicants must meet professional appearance and grooming standards, comply with uniform, hair, tattoo, and piercing guidelines, and be able to use phones, tablets, laptops, and other electronic devices proficiently. Tattoos are prohibited on the head, hands, fingers, and neck, while permitted visible tattoos on the arms, wrists, legs, and feet must be no larger than a credit card or employee badge, or covered by standard uniform pieces
- offensive tattoos are not permitted. Decorative covers, adornments, and jewelry on the teeth or in the mouth are prohibited. Applicants must possess a valid passport book with at least 18 months of remaining validity and two consecutive blank pages, hold applicable visas where required, and be eligible to travel globally without restrictions. They must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The role requires standing, walking, kneeling, bending, stooping, stretching, reaching, lifting heavy objects, pushing and pulling a beverage cart weighing up to 250 pounds, passing a functional reach assessment with a combined 76-inch vertical and 43.5-inch horizontal reach while barefoot, and sitting in a jump seat with the seatbelt and shoulder harness fastened. Applicants must be willing to serve and sell food and beverages, including alcohol, work weekdays, weekends, holidays, nights, extended hours, and reserve assignments, and complete a pool evacuation drill, DOT drug screening, background checks, fingerprinting, vision and hearing tests, and FAA/DOT medical and drug-screening requirements.