Jet2.com Cabin Crew

Jet2.com, paired with the Jet2holidays package business, has grown into the UK's third-largest airline and its most consistently praised aviation employer — regularly topping UK best-workplace rankings that its low-cost rivals rarely trouble. Crew fly a leisure network of Mediterranean, Canary Island and winter-sun routes from around a dozen UK bases including Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Birmingham, Stansted, Glasgow and Bournemouth, with the airline's 'friendly low fares' identity translating into an onboard culture that crew describe as noticeably kinder than the sector norm.

The employment structure follows the leisure calendar: most new crew join on summer-season fixed-term contracts (roughly March to October), with permanent, year-round positions offered to a share of each season's intake. Pay stacks a modest basic with sector pay, hefty onboard commission (Jet2's buy-on-board and duty-free sales are strong) and allowances, bringing typical first-year earnings to roughly GBP 23,000-28,000 and take-home of GBP 1,700-2,200 a month in season; experienced year-round crew and Team Leaders do better, and Glassdoor-reported averages for established crew run far higher than entry figures. Winter months are quieter and leaner for seasonal staff.

The flying is honest leisure short/mid-haul: earlies to Alicante, lates back from Tenerife, four-sector days in summer, almost always home at night. Crew praise approachable management, real recognition schemes, discounted holidays and a promotion path through Team Leader into training and base management. The compromises are the seasonal cliff for new joiners, night-flight-heavy summer patterns on Greek island routes, and pay that rewards sales ability as much as service.