Becoming CC

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girtbar,

As much as i love flying it is a mundane relatively unskilled job

The job of CC is what you make of it. And indeed I have met during my career people who were merely "coffee/tea pourers" (btw, we have also hot choc here )
But there are a number of companies that offer opportunities for people wanting to become more neurone involved. There are jobs instructing, recruiting, planning, examining, supervising, you name it.
I am aware that a number of small airlines don't offer much under this aspect, but there are many who do.


Some years ago I left my the company I was working for at the time for exactly this reason. I felt I had reached the top of what the company could offer, which was not much in my opinion. So I moved to a bigger airline with a big network and much more opportunities in terms of adding to my professional competences. Since then I have become Tutor, Crew Referee for Handicapped Pax and American-French Interculturalism, Instructor, got my 4th language flag and am going through the process to become Cabin Chief. I also asked to become Crew correspondent for Huston last week (well, nobody wanted to do it and all the funny places were already taken ) ...Yes, I know, I love living dangerously
I am not at all trying to set myself as an example: what I mean is that if you like to shake your neurones a bit, you will find a way (which might mean having to change your employer!).

I was recently in SFO for the Airbus Training Symposium, and attended the Cabin Sessions. There were a number of people that were doing very interesting work for their companies. The Emergency Medical Instructor from Finnair who still volunteers working on ambulances to keep updated on handling medical emergencies and First Aid. The team from Condor who does research on sea survival. The guy who after working as a CC on Air Force One has now moved as Cabin and Customer Service Manager for a commercial airline, or the lady who has now moved to the NTSB, or the one who moved to Airbus in Cabin Crew Training.

Being CC can be a job full of opportunities, but you must be the one to make them happen and work for it, because they won't come knocking at your door by themselves!