Cabin Crew Open Days and Walk-ins 2026: Emirates, Etihad, IndiGo, Air India, Qatar

What is listed this week, in one paragraph

We read every airline page below on 21 October 2026, and this is what they listed. Emirates had 78 walk-in Open Days, all in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada, plus 29 invite-only events, two of them in India: Bangalore on 3 November and Kolkata marked "Recruiting now". Etihad had 11 invite-only recruitment days from 27 October to 15 December 2026, none in India or the Philippines. IndiGo had 14 cabin crew walk-ins still to come between 21 and 30 October, in Itanagar, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Dehradun, Kochi, Delhi/NCR, Imphal, Chandigarh, Mangaluru, Agartala, Hyderabad, Gurugram and Greater Noida. Air India, Qatar Airways and Akasa showed no dated cabin crew event. Nothing on this page comes from a forum, a coaching centre or a social media post. If an event is not on an airline's own page, it is not here.

Dates move. An airline can add or remove a city at any time, and none of these pages promises that a listed event will stay. Treat every row as "true on the date shown" and open the airline's page before you book a train or a flight. Links to each page are in the tables and on our official resources page.

India: every cabin crew event on an airline page

Many readers of this page are in India, so here is every Indian event in one table, sorted by date. IndiGo dominates because it publishes city-by-city walk-ins on its Inflight Services events page. Times and venues are as printed there.

Three things the IndiGo page says that change how you should read the list. First, at the top: "Completion of online registration and assessment is mandatory. Shortlisted candidates will receive the interview invitation." So the word "walk-in" on each row does not mean you can arrive unregistered. Second, there are two application links, one "for candidates without flying experience" and one "for candidates with flying experience"; pick the right one. Third, the page still showed eleven drives that had already happened between 13 and 20 October (Darjeeling, Jaipur, Navi Mumbai, Gurugram, Dimapur, Goa, Pune, Delhi, Guwahati, Shillong and Amritsar). That tells you the pattern: on the day we read it, IndiGo was running several cabin crew drives a week across India and the furthest date shown was nine days ahead. If your city is not on the list, it may appear at short notice, so check the page every few days rather than once a month.

Several IndiGo venues are aviation academies or hotel management institutes. The page attaches no condition to them beyond the online registration and assessment, and the drive is listed as IndiGo's own. If an academy tells you that you must enrol or pay to attend, check with IndiGo first (the contact is in the fake drives section below).

Emirates: 78 Open Days and 29 invite-only events

The Emirates cabin crew page runs two lists side by side, and the difference decides whether you can go at all. Open Day: "Walk into any of our Open Days happening all over the world. Take a moment to review the role requirements in advance and arrive at the venue on time." Invite only: "Candidates are required to complete an application online to be selected for our invitation-only recruitment events." Every dated event on both lists starts at 9AM.

Invite-only events (apply online first)

These are the events most of our readers can realistically reach. Each row says "Please apply online to be invited" unless an agency is named, in which case the page names the agency and its contact.

Open Days (walk in, no application needed)

All 78 were outside South Asia, the Gulf, Africa and South-East Asia. By country, with the dates still ahead on 21 October 2026:

Three Emirates FAQ answers matter here. You can go abroad: "If you're unable to attend in your home country ... You're welcome to attend any of the ones listed!" You cannot go online: "At the moment, we're not offering online assessment days." And you can move an invitation: "If something comes up and you can't make it, just reply to your invitation email and request to meet us on another day." Emirates also listed online information sessions for the USA on 15 and 16 November; these are talks about the job, not assessments.

Etihad: 11 invite-only recruitment days

The Etihad cabin crew page has no walk-in route. It says: "If your application stands out, we'll invite you to one of our Cabin Crew Assessment Days. Our Recruitment team runs these invite-only Assessment Days around the world." Each event has a Register button that opens a posting on Etihad's SmartRecruiters site.

What "register" means is spelt out on the Amman posting: "Meet our recruitment team in Amman and fast-track your application. We'll review your application, and shortlisted candidates will be invited to meet us in person." So registering is applying, and the invitation is the filter. One small mismatch to know about: the general Etihad cabin crew posting listed only nine cities on 21 October, left out Brussels and Amman, and gave different dates for two of them (Amsterdam on 3 November and Bangkok on 12 November, against 5 November and 15 December on the careers page). Go by the careers page and the individual event posting, and confirm the date in your invitation. On the day itself, per the careers page, you take part in "interactive group activities, complete aptitude and English language assessments, and join us for a final interview". Etihad also says that it "isn't affiliated with any Cabin Crew or Flight Attendant academies", while academy students are welcome to apply.

Qatar Airways, Air India and Akasa: no dated event this week

"No dated event" is not "no hiring". It means the page we read did not list one. The process pages for Emirates, Qatar and Etihad and for IndiGo, Air India and Akasa describe how each airline screens when it does hire.

How to get into each kind of event

There are three kinds of event on these pages, and each has a different first step. Getting this wrong is the most common way to waste a day.

Before any of these, check that you meet the published requirements; it takes five minutes and saves a journey. The age, height, reach and education rows for each airline, with the date we read them, are on the requirements page. What happens hour by hour once you are inside is on the assessment day stages page.

Fake drives and fees: how to check an event is real

Every airline we read warns about recruitment fraud, and the warnings are specific enough to use as a checklist.

Our five-step check before you travel to any drive: find the event on the airline's own page (not a poster, not a WhatsApp forward); match the city, date and venue; if an agency is involved, check that the airline's page names that agency for that event, as Emirates does for its Portugal, China, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus events; pay nobody; and keep a screenshot of the listing with the date you saw it.

How this page is kept current

We re-read the Emirates, Etihad, IndiGo, Air India, Qatar Airways and Akasa pages every week and update the tables and the read date together. The rules we follow: an event appears here only if we read it on the airline's own page; every row carries the date we read it; a past event is removed at the next update; and a city "expected" on social media is not listed until the airline lists it. We do not predict dates. If an airline has not listed an event in your city, the honest answer is that it has not been announced, and the page to watch is linked in the tables above.

Two patterns are visible in our reads and worth planning around. Emirates and Etihad publish weeks ahead: on 21 October the Emirates list ran to 13 December and the Etihad list to 15 December. IndiGo publishes days ahead: the furthest IndiGo date was 30 October. So for the Gulf carriers, apply now for an event a month away; for IndiGo, keep your documents ready and check the page twice a week.

The week before an event: a speaking route

The airlines' requirements all come back to one line: Emirates and Etihad ask for candidates "fluent in written and spoken English", Qatar Airways lists "Fluent in written and spoken English", and Air India asks for "excellent communication skills in Hindi and English". The written part is tested once; the spoken part is judged all day. Here is how we would use the seven days before an event.

If the day does not go your way, the results and reapplying page covers what the airlines publish about trying again (Emirates says six months), and the cabin crew English hub has the full 21-day plan.