About This Role
United Airlines is hiring full-time Flight Attendants who speak Greek and English fluently. The role combines onboard safety responsibilities with customer service, including emergency response, serving food and beverages, resolving customer issues, and representing United across its global route network. Candidates complete six and a half weeks of initial training in Houston before being assigned to a United hub or other flight attendant base.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Flight Attendants are responsible for ensuring the highest levels of safety while delivering professional, optimistic, and compassionate service. Duties include engaging directly with customers, resolving issues with sound judgment and understanding, influencing customer loyalty, representing United with pride, serving and selling food and beverages including alcohol, operating required equipment and aircraft doors, responding to evacuations and other emergencies, and completing safety-related procedures. Crew members must be dependable, timely, adaptable, and able to work independently and as part of a team. The role requires availability for global assignments 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including nights, weekends, holidays, and extended hours
- reserve assignments may be issued on short notice, and crew members may be away from their assigned base for several days at a time.
Requirements
- Applicants must be at least 21 years old at the time of application and hold a high school diploma or GED
- two or more years of college are preferred. At least one year of customer service experience is required. Candidates must speak, read, write, and understand English fluently and speak and read Greek fluently, communicate clearly and loudly enough to be heard in an emergency, hear the required range of sounds, and communicate effectively during evacuations, security threats, delays, medical emergencies, severe weather, and turbulence. Applicants must maintain a professional appearance and follow United's uniform, hair, tattoo, piercing, and grooming standards. They must be able to operate electronic devices, possess a valid passport book with applicable visas where required, at least 18 months of remaining validity, and two consecutive blank pages, and be able to travel to and from all countries served by United without restrictions. Physical requirements include standing, walking, kneeling, bending, stooping, stretching, reaching, lifting heavy objects such as luggage, 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 and hold without shoes, and sitting in a jump seat with the seatbelt and shoulder harness fastened. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and able to work a flexible schedule covering weekdays, weekends, holidays, nights, reserve assignments, and extended hours. Trainees must pass a water evacuation drill, pre-employment DOT drug screening, background checks, fingerprinting, vision and hearing tests, DOT/FAA drug screens, and a 10-year background check. They must meet applicable FAA and United hearing and vision standards.