Bases, pay, training, hiring windows and the interview process — from dated sources.
Last updated August 2026 — dated facts carry their own as-of dates below.
Omni Air International is a Tulsa-headquartered charter and ACMI widebody operator (an ATSG subsidiary) flying roughly three 767-200ERs, nine 767-300ERs — including two owned by the New England Patriots — and three 777-200ERs. There is no scheduled network. The missions: military/AMC troop movements worldwide, DoD and government charters (Omni is a CRAF participant — its 777s were activated for the 2021 Afghanistan airlift), ICE "special high-risk" international removal charters, sports-team charters, and ad-hoc commercial work.
The trap to disarm first: widebody does not mean mainline pay. Candidates see 767s and 777s flying international and project Delta/United international FA earnings onto the job. Omni's published start rate — $20.57 per block hour with a 65-hour monthly guarantee, the lowest guarantee in our research set — is below every U.S. mainline carrier and roughly at regional level. Roughly $16k/year from the guarantee alone; real earnings depend on flying above guarantee, per-diem accumulation on long pairings, and $200 call-out pay. No verified average-first-year figure exists, and we won't synthesize one.
The lifestyle numbers come from Omni's own page, and they are the honesty anchor — use them verbatim: duty periods of "up to 20+ hours of flight duty and 26+ hour deadhead travel," and pairings keeping crews "19 or more continuous days away from base at any time including nights, weekends, and holidays." This is expeditionary flying — weeks away, austere and military destinations, irregular everything. Omni screens hardest for people who understood the deal before walking in; "I want a normal airline schedule with layovers in nice cities" is the classic mis-fit.
Baseline requirements (oai.aero, checked August 2026): "Must be 21 years of age or older"; high-school diploma or GED; prior customer service/public service experience required (unusual — most carriers merely prefer it); and the defining Omni gate: "valid travel documents with access to all international destinations" — a passport able to enter every country Omni serves (Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, plus military destinations), with U.S. work authorization without sponsorship. Add a 10-year background check, FAA fingerprint-based criminal history check, FAA pre-employment and ongoing drug testing, and TSA checks — for a DoD/CRAF contractor the document bar is a genuine screen, not boilerplate. Physical specs: posting text requires a 74-inch (188 cm) overhead reach (per Omni's job postings — verify against the live posting), doors up to 60 lbs, 32-lb cart push/pull force, lifting overhead up to 60 lbs, and standing/walking two-thirds or more of flight time. One prep site reports a 25-meter swim requirement and CPR training — unverified against Omni's own materials; confirm with recruiting. No appearance/tattoo policy was located at all — we publish nothing rather than guess.
Current recruiting materials cite bases at DFW, SEA, and BWI (per current postings — the count is unstable; "6 different US bases" appears in older posting text, and forum history mentions LAS, HNL, and MSP over the years). Charter base footprints move with contracts. Note that Omni's corporate operational stations (Fort Worth Alliance, Las Vegas, etc.) are not the same thing as FA domiciles — don't conflate them.
There is no airline-style reserve system. Scheduling is charter availability against contract demand; one Glassdoor-derived report describes a "3 week rotation on and off" pattern after training — a single report, so hold it loosely.
Omni pays per block hour (its own phrasing) — but the charter lifestyle changes the math: those 20+ hour duty periods and 26+ hour deadheads mean enormous unpaid-at-rate duty and away time relative to block hours, with per diem as the compensating mechanism. Numbers from oai.aero, checked August 2026:
Omni Air International requires flight attendants to be at least 21, hold a high school diploma or GED, and carry a passport valid for every country it serves.
Requirements change between hiring windows — confirm them on the Omni Air International careers page before you apply.
Data compiled from airline careers pages, union publications, industry press, and candidate-reported interview intel — wave-dependent facts carry as-of dates. Candidate reports are unofficial; confirm requirements on the airline's own careers site.