Delta Airlines site crashes after flight attendant application flood

It seems the recent spate of bad airplane passenger etiquette hasn’t deterred flight attendant hopefuls from attempting to enter their ranks.

Delta Airline’s website epically crashed after becoming overloaded with a deluge of applications for its 2025 flight attendant positions.

The glitch occurred Wednesday after the carrier, which is one of the “Big Three” US Airlines alongside American and United, opened its flight attendant applications for the first time in over a year.

“Due to extremely high demand for Delta flight attendant positions, some applicants reported difficulties [with] the application page on September 4,” a Delta representative told Business Insider.

Following the crash, the airline issued an advisory on its recruitment page stating that the “application experience may be slow during this period” due to the “large influx of candidate interest for the Flight Attendant position.”

Meanwhile, Reddit was inundated with complaints from prospective crew members.

“The website crashed wasn’t quick enough to upload my application,” rued one, while another applicant wrote, “Me too. So frustrating. I got to the end and crashed again. Now it’s not working.”

A third uploaded a screenshot of the Delta website with a message denoting that it was “temporarily unavailable.”

A fourth said they were finally able to apply for the gig “after almost two hours of refreshing the screen in incognito mode.”

Unfortunately, the race to join the “Delta force” has been cutthroat even without a computer malfunction.

After rebounding from the pandemic, the airline received 65,000 applications for a record 5,000 jobs in 2023 while there will allegedly be fewer positions this year.

Meanwhile, the site states that Delta applicants “must have a high school diploma, GED or high school equivalency, the ability to work in the U.S., speak, read and write English fluently and be at least 21 years of age at the time of application submission.”

Delta is also seeking bilingual applicants who are fluent in English as well as any other language like Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, German, Italian, Korean or Swedish.

To apply, aspiring air hosts/hostesses must undergo a five-stage process that involves submitting an application, trying out virtually, as well as both a video and in-person interview.

Should they be accepted, applicants will receive a conditional job offer and must go through seven weeks of training.