Helvetic wants to make the flight attendant profession more attractive with a new model and shared accommodation

Embraer 190 (Photo: Robert Spohr).
Embraer 190 (Photo: Robert Spohr).

Helvetic wants to make the flight attendant profession more attractive with a new model and shared accommodation

Embraer 190 (Photo: Robert Spohr).
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The airline Helvetic Airways wants to make the part-time flight attendant job more attractive and is introducing a new model. This is intended to enable employees to organize their work assignments flexibly to a large extent. Furthermore, they want to make several accommodations near Zurich Airport available for subletting.

Many airlines now have serious problems recruiting new cabin crew. If it was once a dream job, interest has drastically reduced, particularly due to the consequences of the corona pandemic. This also applies to part-time jobs, which are particularly important for airlines in order to be able to react flexibly to current demand. With many providers, however, the problems are also home-made, because the jobs at one or the other airline are not financially attractive. Remunerations that are below the earnings of supermarket employees are occasionally quite possible.

In Switzerland, the salaries of cabin crew are rather high compared to other European countries, but the interest in this profession in the Confederation is not exactly such that applicants would literally break in the doors. Helvetic Airways wants to offer additional incentives with flexible part-time models, including the possibility of using a kind of "WG". You just want to be more attractive than other airlines. Just a good reputation of the airline is no longer enough to attract potential new employees.

Helvetic has been offering unusual employment models for a number of years, which are aimed, for example, at students or at people who work seasonally in the winter season and are always looking for another job in summer, but even that doesn't seem to be enough. With "Fly your way" you bring a completely new concept to the start.

Employees should be able to state their job preferences individually. This could be a model for a 50 percent job, alternating one week on and one week off, or the same on a monthly basis. It would also be conceivable, for example, to have 6 months "on" and 6 months "off". “Today, the ability to plan individually is very important for colleagues of all ages. We are open to new ideas and will try to meet today's requirements with these innovative working time models. This is where we differ once again from our competitors,” says Tobias Pogorevc, CEO of Helvetic Airways.

If desired, the existing workforce should also have the opportunity to switch to the new model. “These individually designed terms of employment can be adjusted twice a year with a lead time of six months. This makes it possible for our employees to adapt their part-time assignments to changing conditions," says Pogorevc.

In addition, the so-called "Helvetic-WG" was created. This is intended to enable airline employees who do not live in the immediate vicinity of Zurich-Kloten Airport to use a room near the airport. "With this offer, we want to support employees so that they can focus fully on their training and work when they start work and don't have to worry about looking for a flat or room first," says Tobias Pogorevc. The offer is initially only aimed at employees who are newly hired. After the end of a test phase, the offer will be supplemented by further apartments if required and will also be available to existing employees who would like to rent a room in one of the Helvetic flat shares.

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René Steuer is an editor at Aviation.Direct and specializes in tourism and regional aviation. Before that, he worked for AviationNetOnline (formerly Austrian Aviation Net), among others.
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