Becoming cabin crew seems glamorous but behind the scenes airlines often reject many hopefuls for reasons they rarely mention openly.
Airlines look beyond just nice looks. They evaluate whether your height weight ratio is appropriate posture and body language are confident hair and makeup are tidy and overall presentation is professional. Clean well groomed appearance including subtle natural makeup good posture polite smile and confident walk matters a lot.
Even if you have the right degree poor communication can sink your chances. Airlines expect you to speak clear fluent English with good pronunciation and confident voice. If you sound nervous nervousness or over confidence both hurt. Good communication ensures smooth interaction with passengers and interviewers.
Your attitude and personality often matter more than technical skills. Airlines look for team players friendly flexible calm under stress emotionally aware polite humble and culturally sensitive. Someone overly casual arrogant or not socially adaptable is likely to get rejected.
In group interviews or role plays body language eye contact listening skills and how you interact with others are closely watched. Candidates who dominate interrupt fail to follow instructions or come off as unfriendly often get filtered out. Also, understanding and respecting the airline's culture values and brand is important.
Good health hearing eyesight stamina and fitness are essential. Poor physical fitness unstable blood pressure health problems (like severe allergies breathing issues etc.) or incorrect documentation/age criteria can be reasons for rejection. Even if you pass the interview failing medical or fitness checks can disqualify you.
Sometimes the decision depends on unseen factors. Airlines may reject qualified candidates if they don't fit with the existing batch maybe the gender ratio regional balance languages spoken or cultural balance doesn't match. They often look for a mix of backgrounds and profiles and this unseen fit matters.