Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines now hire flight attendants through one shared process: an online assessment and on-demand video interview, then a full-day in-person hiring event where offers can be made on the day. Here's what's involved and how to prepare.
Last checked October 2026 against Alaska Airlines's careers pages and candidate reports.
Alaska doesn't publish the platform or format of its on-demand interview, and there are fewer candidate reports than for the larger carriers. Expect behavioural questions and prepare the same way you would for any timed recorded round.
Recent candidates also describe an online personality questionnaire as part of the screening step.
Candidates advise against giving travel as your main reason for wanting the job. Alaska wants to hear why the work and this airline suit you.
Alaska's values are own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance and be remarkable, and its purpose is creating an airline people love. Candidates report being asked which value resonates with them, so pick one and attach a real story to it.
Paraphrased from candidate reports. Expect different wording, and questions built around the same themes.
With offers made on the day of the hiring event, the in-person interview is your whole shot. The recorded round is where you find out whether your stories hold up; practice them there first.
Alaska allows visible tattoos within limits: none on the face, front of the neck or chest; one per hand, quarter-sized or smaller; and one each on an arm, leg or foot, the back of the neck or behind the ear (the last two only if they don't show from the front). Elsewhere, tattoos must be no bigger than a credit card and not offensive. Covering is done with the uniform or approved jewellery, not makeup, bandages or sleeves. Two earrings per ear and one nose piercing are allowed. Tattoos are checked at the hiring event, so compare yours against the current standards before you go.
Alaska doesn't publish an interview dress code. Candidates report business professional: tailored, conservative clothes in solid colours, and closed-toe shoes.
Alaska hires in short windows; the 2026 window opened on 20 July and stayed open for about three days. Once you're in, things move quickly: candidates commonly report two to four weeks from the online assessment to the hiring event, and conditional offers can come at the end of the event itself.
Alaska sets a reach requirement rather than a height: 82 inches, standing on your toes without shoes.
Yes, within limits. None on the face, front of the neck or chest; one quarter-sized tattoo per hand; and others no bigger than a credit card. Tattoos are checked at the hiring event.
Alaska doesn't publish a dress code. Candidates report business professional: conservative, solid colours and closed-toe shoes.
Candidates commonly report two to four weeks from the online assessment to the hiring event, and offers can come on the day of the event.
No. Alaska training is six weeks in Seattle and Hawaiian training eight weeks in Honolulu, both unpaid with a daily per diem.
Alaska asks that candidates be comfortable in water.
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