Singapore Airlines yesterday said it would recruit flight attendants in Taiwan, part of a growing trend among airlines serving the region that require Mandarin-speaking personnel to handle the increasing number of travelers from China.
The Singaporean carrier has been hiring flight attendants in Taiwan since 2012, usually attracting a few thousand candidates during each recruitment drive, due to the relatively good employee benefits offered by the company.
While the airline declined to disclose how many Taiwanese flight attendants it is seeking, the carrier has hired 20 to 40 new staff in Taiwan every year in past recruitment drives.
The kind of applicants the Singaporean carrier is seeking are people who hold a university degree, are willing to reside in Singapore and are fluent in both Chinese and English.
The airline said it would offer about NT$80,500 in monthly salary to newly hired flight attendants, who would also be entitled to free travel to any Singapore Airlines destination once per year and receive discounted travel fares at other times.
Interested applicants should submit their resumes through the carrier’s Web site by Tuesday next week, the airline said.
Preliminary interviews would be conducted in Taipei on May 24, the carrier said, adding that candidates who clear that round would be invited to a final round of interviews the following day.
In related news, Dubai-based airline Emirates yesterday said it would expand capacity on its Taipei-Dubai route by 20 percent starting on Dec. 1, to meet increasing demand from the Taiwanese market.
The carrier said it would use a two-class Boeing 777-300ER instead of a three-class Boeing 777-300ER for the flight, increasing capacity by 74 passengers to 428.
Emirates said it would also add four Taipei-Dubai flights next month, also using the Boeing 777-300ER model, adding two flights from Taipei to Dubai on June 11 and June 28, and two flights from Dubai to Taipei on June 11 and June 27.
The airline became the first and only airline offering direct flights between the two cities when it launched services in February last year, but it has positioned itself as offering convenient transfers to Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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