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.
Sun Country is a Minneapolis-headquartered hybrid carrier — scheduled leisure flying plus charter (casino, sports, military) plus Amazon cargo operations on the same certificate. For a flight attendant candidate, the headline corporate fact is this: Sun Country was acquired by Allegiant — the deal was announced January 11, 2026 and completed May 13, 2026 (~$1.5 billion including ~$0.4 billion net debt). As of August 2026 Sun Country still operates independently on its own certificate, under its own FA contract, with careers messaging stating "Sun Country Airlines is now part of Allegiant... each airline continues to operate independently today." FA hiring continues on careers.suncountry.com, which now cross-promotes Allegiant openings. Expect eventual integration questions (fleet, cross-training, seniority) only after single-certificate operations — the existing union contracts remain in effect meanwhile.
Hiring-window status (as of August 2026): OPEN. The official FA careers page showed an active "Apply Now" flow for flight attendant classes across four bases (listed below), with application made to a specific base. Sun Country hires into scheduled training classes per base rather than one national annual wave. The workgroup is small — nearly 800 FAs at the January 2025 union agreement-in-principle — so single classes fill quickly.
Baseline requirements, verbatim from careers.suncountry.com (checked August 2026): "Must be 20 years or older at the end of initial training" — note 20, not 21, an unusual and genuine differentiator for younger candidates — "High school diploma or equivalent," "Ability to read, write, understand, and clearly speak in English," "Basic computer knowledge," and — the big gate — a "Minimum of two years direct customer service experience." That two-year experience requirement is required, not preferred (stricter than Allegiant's preferred one year), and candidate reports say it actually gets probed at interview. Also required: a valid passport with "at least six months validity at the start of training" and ability to travel to any country Sun Country serves.
The industry-wide caution applies here too: there is no flight-attendant flow-through to a mainline carrier — flow-through is a pilot-program concept — and being Allegiant-owned does not create an automatic pipeline into Allegiant cabins either; the two airlines hire separately as of August 2026.
The official careers-page base list (checked August 2026), applied to per base:
Do not read that list as four equally active pipelines: IFP, LAS, and GPT are small charter stations where openings are sporadic. MSP is where the volume is — third-party listing sites showed active MSP Flight Attendant Trainee requisitions in 2026.
The base list is also squarely in the blast radius of the Allegiant integration — re-verify it before every application cycle.
Sun Country FAs are unionized under the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 120, and the pay story is the hard-won contract: a five-year CBA ratified in March 2025 after five years of negotiation (talks began 2019, federal mediation from December 2023, informational picketing at MSP, and a credible strike threat before the deal). Headline terms: an immediate 21% wage increase, up to 58% total increase over the contract term, higher company retirement contributions, stronger holiday-scheduling language, and a 14-year reduction in the time to reach top of scale.
What we can't tell you: the first-year hourly rate. No verified post-CBA new-hire rate has been published. ZipRecruiter showed a $27–53/hour band on MSP listings (2026) and Glassdoor a ~$54,758/year median total pay — neither is an official first-year rate. What the CBA structure does tell you: any pre-2025 figure circulating online is stale by at least the 21% immediate raise. The honest line: the first-year rate is set by the 2025 IBT contract — ask at the group interview.
Pay mechanics are industry-standard per flight hour, but trip construction is not: Sun Country's hybrid model means charter flying — sports teams, casino runs from the small stations, military — is part of the FA job, and schedules differ from pure scheduled-airline flying.
Reserve reality: no sourced detail exists on new-hire reserve length or line-holding timelines — coverage is thin because the workgroup is only ~800 people. Flag reserve specifics as an ask-at-interview item; we won't invent numbers for a carrier this small.
Sun Country Airlines requires flight attendants to be 20 or older by the end of initial training, hold a high school diploma or equivalent, and reach 80 vertical inches without shoes.
Requirements change between hiring windows — confirm them on the Sun Country Airlines 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.