Air Europa hires cabin crew and pilots through recruitment campaigns it announces on its own channels, and every vacancy is posted on its careers portal. For a cabin crew role the published requirements are short and specific: a valid EASA cabin crew attestation, a valid Class CC aeronautical medical certificate, an unrestricted passport, native or bilingual Spanish and a good command of English. Selection runs online tests first, then a face to face session in Madrid, then training and a set start date.
About Air Europa
Air Europa is one of Spain's largest airlines. It was founded in 1986 and flew its first service between Tenerife and London. In 1991 a group of investors led by Juan Jose Hidalgo acquired the company, and in 1993 it began scheduled domestic flights, breaking Iberia's monopoly on the Spanish market.
The airline entered the SkyTeam alliance on 1 September 2007 and became a full member in July 2010. In 2016 it became the first Spanish carrier to put a Boeing 787 Dreamliner into service. Its corporate offices are in Llucmajor, Mallorca, and its hub is Madrid.
Air Europa's own published figures put it at 52 aircraft and 4,399 employees, working from 21 countries and drawn from 45 nationalities. It is the only airline in Spain, and one of only three worldwide, accredited under the EU Eco Management and Audit Scheme.
The airline remains part of the Globalia group. IAG, the owner of Iberia and Vueling, had an agreement with Globalia to acquire Air Europa outright but terminated it in August 2024, after the European Commission raised competition concerns about the deal.
Roles at Air Europa
Air Europa splits its openings into flight roles and ground roles.
Flight roles are pilots and cabin crew. These are filled through recruitment campaigns that the airline announces on its social channels rather than through a permanently open advert, so the timing matters as much as the application.
Ground roles run across finance, legal, commercial and sales, revenue, people and talent, operations, engineering and maintenance. Most are based in Llucmajor or Madrid, and many are advertised as hybrid.
There are also programmes for students and recent graduates, including academic placements for aircraft maintenance technicians and schemes for aeronautical engineers and for revenue management.
Air Europa Culture, Values And Benefits
Air Europa publishes five values: customer focus, teamwork, agility, sustainability and innovation. Teamwork is the one it puts most weight on, describing its people as the airline's differentiating asset. If you are preparing answers for an interview, those five are the vocabulary to work in.
The staff package includes intensive and flexible hours with remote working in many ground roles, flexible benefits covering health services, transport, meals, training and childcare, and discounted tickets with Air Europa and more than 100 other carriers.
Air Europa Cabin Crew Requirements
This is the part most applicants are looking for, so here it is plainly. To apply for a Tripulante de Cabina de Pasajeros role, Air Europa's own vacancy listings ask for:
- A valid EASA cabin crew attestation (EASA-142)
- A valid Class CC aeronautical medical certificate
- A passport in force, with no restrictions
- Native or bilingual Spanish
- A good command of English
Note what is not on that list. Air Europa does not publish a minimum height, a minimum arm reach or a swimming requirement in its cabin crew vacancies. Figures of that kind circulate widely about the airline, but they do not appear in its own adverts, so treat any you see as unverified and read the specific vacancy you are applying to.
The cabin crew attestation is the gate that stops most applicants. It is a certificate you already hold when you apply, not something the airline puts you through, so if you do not have one then a cabin crew attestation course is the first step rather than an application.
Posts are advertised as a fixed discontinuous contract, full time, based in Madrid, with pay set by the applicable collective agreement.
Air Europa Application Process
Where the vacancies are
Air Europa's careers site is empleo.aireuropa.com, and its live vacancies are at vacantes.aireuropa.com. You can search by role and by location, and if nothing suitable is open you can submit a speculative CV for future openings.
Pilot and cabin crew campaigns are announced on Air Europa's social channels. Following those is the practical way to catch a campaign before it closes, because they are open for a fixed window rather than all year.
The application
You apply online through the vacancies portal, uploading a CV and completing the form for the role. Each advert carries a closing date, and in published cabin crew campaigns that date has fallen weeks before the first assessment stage, so there is nothing to gain by leaving it late.
The selection stages
Air Europa's published cabin crew campaigns run in three phases:
- Online tests. Personality and language assessments, completed remotely inside a set window of a few days.
- In person session in Madrid. Candidates who clear the online stage attend on one of a small number of scheduled dates.
- Training and incorporation. Successful candidates join on a set start date, complete the airline's training and then start flying.
In the campaigns Air Europa has published, those three stages have each fallen roughly a month apart, so plan for a couple of months between applying and your first flight.
Air Europa Online Tests and Assessments
Air Europa's cabin crew campaigns name two assessments at the online stage: a personality questionnaire and a language test.
The personality questionnaire looks at working style rather than ability, and it has no right answers. Answer it consistently and honestly; trying to second-guess what an airline wants tends to produce a profile that contradicts itself, and consistency checks are exactly what these questionnaires are built to catch.
The language test covers the Spanish and English the role requires. Read the advert for the standard expected, because it differs between cabin crew and ground roles.
Beyond those, airline recruitment commonly uses aptitude tests, and the formats are consistent enough across carriers that practice transfers. These are the three worth preparing:
Situational Judgement
A situational judgement test presents a work scenario and several possible responses, and asks you to pick the most effective one. In an airline context the scenarios are usually about safety, service recovery and working with a crew you have only just met. Answer for the role, not for yourself at your current job.
Verbal Reasoning
A verbal reasoning test gives you a passage of text and questions about it. Everything you need is in the passage; the test is measuring how accurately you read under time pressure, not what you already know. That is a fair proxy for reading a safety procedure correctly the first time.
Logical Reasoning
Logical reasoning tests are non-verbal. You are shown a sequence of shapes with an item missing and have to work out the rule that governs it, then apply that rule to choose the answer.
The assessment session
The in person session in Madrid is where the airline meets you. Air Europa does not publish what the day contains, so your invitation is the authoritative source and worth reading closely. Bring the documents it asks for, and be ready to talk about your attestation, your medical certificate and your availability.
