Ms. Floatjockey,
My partner has just come out of FA training with SWISS (Airbus - Europe). I shall ask him next time about the interviews...
Training is about four weeks - if you have one official language (i.e. German or French) in addition to English you will most likely be placed on the Crossair fleet. Airbus graduates usually have numerous languages behind them.
I will be leaving for ZRH next week - can you tell me where this Australian pub is?