IndiGo, Air India, Akasa Cabin Crew Selection Process: Walk-ins, GD, English, Interview

The Indian carrier route in one paragraph

IndiGo, Air India and Akasa hire cabin crew mostly through recruitment drives in Indian cities, which candidates report are announced at short notice. The official pages publish less than the Gulf carriers do. The Air India Cabin Crew Programme page (read in a browser on 20 October 2026; it timed out for our fetchers on 21 October, so we could not re-check it this week) publishes a clear eligibility list: Indian passport, age 18 to 27 for freshers and up to 35 with experience, Class 12 with 50 per cent, height 155 cm for women and 170 cm for men, BMI 18 to 22 for women and 18 to 25 for men, 6/6 vision. The IndiGo careers page (read in a browser on 20 October 2026; not re-checked this week) lists Cabin Crew as a department and has a "Hiring Events" section, with no eligibility rows or rounds on the page we read. The Akasa Air careers page (read 21 October 2026) shows an Inflight Services hiring tile and no requirements. No Indian carrier page we read describes its selection rounds. What candidates report, consistently, is a day of four parts: document screening, a group discussion in English in batches of 8 to 12, a personal interview of 15 to 25 minutes, and a medical and document check later. Everything in this page keeps the two apart: what the pages say, and what candidates add.

What the official pages say, and what they do not

The table is the audit. If a cell says "not published on the page we read", we looked and it was not there; it is not a gap we forgot to fill. The Gulf carriers are on their own page, Emirates vs Qatar Airways vs Etihad, and every requirement row across all six airlines is on requirements by airline.

Both the Air India and IndiGo pages are heavy, scripted sites that time out for simple fetchers; we read them in a browser on 20 October 2026 and will re-read them the week this page is next checked. The date in each cell tells you how fresh it is. If a drive matters to you, open the page yourself the same day.

Air India: the eligibility rows as published

Air India is the one Indian carrier with a public eligibility list, so it is where most Indian applicants should start their self-check. Per the programme page read on 20 October 2026, the rows are: an Indian passport; age 18 to 27 for freshers, extended to 35 for candidates with experience; Class 12 with 50 per cent; minimum height 155 cm for women and 170 cm for men; BMI between 18 and 22 for women and between 18 and 25 for men; and 6/6 vision. Three things to notice.

• The age floor is 18, not 21. Emirates and Etihad both require 21 (per their pages, read 21 October 2026). A 19-year-old with Class 12 can apply to Air India now and to the Gulf carriers later. The ceiling of 27 for freshers is lower than many people assume; plan around it.
• BMI is published, and it is a range, not a minimum. Neither Gulf page we read publishes a BMI figure. Work yours out from your height and weight before the drive; it is checked at the medical stage by every report.
• No English test is named. The page is silent on English. That does not mean English is not judged; candidates report the group discussion runs in English and the interview mostly in English. It means there is no written screen to study for and every mark for English comes from your mouth.

What candidates report for the Air India day (unverified)

Registration and a document check against the rows above, including a height measurement; a group discussion in English in batches of about 8 to 12 on a general or service topic; a personal interview of 15 to 25 minutes, mixing competency questions ("a time you handled a difficult customer") with motivation ("why Air India") and a few questions in Hindi; then a medical, including BMI and vision, and background checks for those selected, on a later date. We have not read any of this on an Air India page. Our final interview questions by airline page has ten questions for the Air India interview with model answers written by TalkDrill.

IndiGo: the hiring-events route

IndiGo publishes the least on the page we read: a list of departments that includes Cabin Crew and a "Hiring Events" section. That section is the route. Candidates report that IndiGo announces cabin crew drives by city one to two weeks ahead, through the careers page and social media, and that the drive is either a registration-first event or a true walk-in with documents. We did not capture a dated event in our 20 October 2026 read and we will not invent one; the open days and events page lists only what we read, with the date we read it, and is checked weekly.

What candidates report for the IndiGo day (unverified)

1. Screening at the door. Documents, a height check, a glance at grooming and a first short exchange in English. Many candidates report being released here.
2. Group discussion. Batches of 8 to 12, a general or customer-service topic, in English. Assessors stand outside the circle and note who listens, who builds and who interrupts.
3. Personal interview. 15 to 25 minutes, a small panel. Self-introduction, why IndiGo, a situation question, availability for relocation and rostering, and one or two questions in Hindi.
4. Medical and documents. Later, for selected candidates.

Because IndiGo publishes no English requirement, prep sites fill the space with guesses about levels and certificates. Ignore them. Prepare the two rounds where English is heard: the group discussion, with our 30 topics and worked transcript, and the interview, with a two-minute introduction and three STAR stories.

Akasa Air: what we could read

Akasa's careers page, read on 21 October 2026, is a values page with three hiring tiles: Flight Operations, Inflight Services ("Take off with India's fastest-growing airline") and Ground Services. Inflight Services is the cabin crew entry point. In our read the tiles led to no requirements page, so we have no eligibility rows, no rounds and no events from an official Akasa page. The page says "All our job opportunities are always listed on our official website - akasaair.com and our social media channels".

It also carries the clearest anti-fraud statement of the three Indian carriers, worth quoting in full because cabin crew applicants are a common target for fee scams: "Akasa Air follows merit-based, fair and transparent recruitment practices." "We do not charge fees or deposits from job seekers." "We do not partner with agents who offer jobs for money." "We do not collect fees from individuals or educational institutions for participation in recruitment drives." The page gives jobverification@akasaair.com as the address for checking an offer.

Candidates report that Akasa drives look like IndiGo drives: announced by city, screening, a group discussion, a personal interview, then medical. Unverified. If you are targeting Akasa, check the careers page and Akasa's own social media channels for an Inflight Services opening, and screenshot the requirements when one is posted; they are the only official version. We will add the rows here the week the page is readable.

The rounds candidates report, labelled as reports

Across the three carriers, the candidate accounts converge on one day shape. We lay it out once, with what each round is really measuring in our reading, so you can prepare the skill rather than the rumour.

Timings in the table are candidate reports, not airline wording. We repeat that because the next prep site you open will present them as fact.

Hindi and English: how language is judged on an Indian carrier day

Indian carriers carry many domestic passengers, so crew need to serve a passenger in Hindi or a regional language and announce a delay in clear English. Candidates report that the day is built to check both, even though no page we read states it. In our reading, the group discussion is run in English because it is a quick way to hear a whole batch of candidates speak English. The interview is mostly English, with one or two questions in Hindi (or the local language at a regional drive) to check you are not a candidate who can only perform in one language. Here is what that means in practice, in our reading.

• Do not switch to Hindi in the GD, even if others do. The round exists to hear your English. One sentence in Hindi to a confused group member is fine if you return to English at once.
• Do not refuse Hindi in the interview. If asked a question in Hindi, answer in natural Hindi for a few sentences, then say "shall I continue in English?" if you prefer. The point is to show you can switch for a passenger.
• Indian English habits that read badly in the GD: "basically" and "actually" at the start of every turn; "I am having" for "I have"; "kindly" and "the same" from office emails; "no?" as a tag; rising intonation on statements. The mistakes by first language page covers Hindi, Punjabi and Malayalam speakers, among others, with drills for each.
• Announcement English is interview English. Read two PA scripts aloud a day from the spoken English page. It fixes pace, the thing interviewers most often note.

A practice route for an Indian carrier day

Written by TalkDrill for a candidate who has seen a drive announced in their city for a date within two weeks. Twenty to thirty minutes a day. The full three-week version, with the English test week for Gulf applicants, is on the roadmap page.

The cabin crew English hub lists every page in this module. If your target is a Gulf carrier as well, the assessment day stages page covers the Emirates and Etihad day as their own pages describe it.