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Nine airlines' own recruitment pages, compared. The biggest US carriers publish no height, only reach tests. Turkish Airlines publishes a permitted weight for every centimetre of height, separately for women and men, and Air India sets a BMI band that is narrower for women. Then experience, age, pay, training, bases and who can apply at all.
Eighteen airlines publish a warning about fake job offers, or a promise never to charge applicants, on their own careers sites. Read side by side, the same few points recur: no fees, no bank details, and email only from the airline's own domain. Etihad Airways lists the telephone as an interview format; IndiGo warns against offers that follow telephone interviews alone.
At airline level there is no true FAA-EASA licence conversion in either direction, only training credit plus a fresh set of exams, checks and medicals. What actually transfers, what it costs, how long it takes.
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