Emirates is extending its immersive virtual training platform MIRA to what the airline says is its number one priority – safety. The airline’s nearly 23,000, and rapidly growing, cabin crew team, who ...

Cabin crew are safety professionals. When a passenger collapses mid-flight. When smoke fills a cabin. When violence erupts ...

I visited the Emirates Aviation Training College in Dubai where Emirates train their cabin crew. The new Emirates cabin crew (ab initio) went through an intensive 8 weeks of training and exams to be ...

I visited the Emirates Aviation Training College in Dubai, where new cabin crew undergo an intensive 8-week training program. This includes safety and emergency procedure (SEP) training for scenarios ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Arta Uma Upmale, a 26-year-old social-media manager and part-time flight attendant at airBaltic, Latvia’s flagship carrier airline.