Training for United Airlines will more than likely begin sometime in August. We are not sure the exact dates yet but should find out sometime at the end of this month. Training will be SEVEN LONG WEEKS in Chicago, Illinois. Exciting, huh? During those seven weeks we will be staying at the United Headquarters in apartment-like hotel rooms. I will be living with two other girls and we will have a living area as well as a kitchen connected to our rooms. So it is going to be like freshman year in the dorms all over again...except much bigger and more luxurious. All accomodations are paid for by United including the flight out to Chicago and back, the hotel stay for seven weeks, and a meal plan to eat in their cafeteria whenever we want. Just like college :)
Flight attendant training is a grueling process where we will be in classes TEN HOURS PER DAY and tested daily on the previous day's material. We only get a couple of days off during the seven weeks and those are usually spent sleeping and catching up on some needed rest. The plus side to training is you often make lifelong friends in your classes and you get to go on three real flights to other cities. Two will be DOMESTIC and One will be INTERNATIONAL...in which they will be flying us to JAPAN for four days!!! How cool is that?
Once training is over I will receive my WINGS and obtain official flight attendant status. This is also when I will find out where my base will be located. In other words, what city my new home will be in. It is looking like either Chicago (where their headquarters are) or Washington D.C. (where they are sending a lot of new flight attendants). The other major bases are Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. I have no say in where they originally send me. It is based on where the need is. However, after six months I will be able to put in the request to be tranferred anywhere I want...I am shooting for San Francisco. More updates to come...stay tuned!
Flight attendant training is a grueling process where we will be in classes TEN HOURS PER DAY and tested daily on the previous day's material. We only get a couple of days off during the seven weeks and those are usually spent sleeping and catching up on some needed rest. The plus side to training is you often make lifelong friends in your classes and you get to go on three real flights to other cities. Two will be DOMESTIC and One will be INTERNATIONAL...in which they will be flying us to JAPAN for four days!!! How cool is that?
Once training is over I will receive my WINGS and obtain official flight attendant status. This is also when I will find out where my base will be located. In other words, what city my new home will be in. It is looking like either Chicago (where their headquarters are) or Washington D.C. (where they are sending a lot of new flight attendants). The other major bases are Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. I have no say in where they originally send me. It is based on where the need is. However, after six months I will be able to put in the request to be tranferred anywhere I want...I am shooting for San Francisco. More updates to come...stay tuned!
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