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Is Aircraft cleaning a good job? Are there opportunities to advance?
Do they get good promotions and pay raises for this job? Or is this just a crappy job with no benefits?
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At one time I worked as a Station agent for an Domestic and International Carrier. Depending on my assignment for that shift I could be a ticketing agent, gate agent, or supervising the catering and cleaning of the planes between flights.
Ground times differ from airline to airline and types of planes. Smaller planes such as a 737-700 have the shortest turn around times with the 37-900 having a longer turn around time of that series. Then you get into the wide bodies and there turn around times differ as well.
What doesn't change is how long the cleaners get to clean the plane between flights which is less then an hour or about 10 seconds a seat for a 350 seat plane that is 58 minutes of the 1 hour 45 minute to w hour ground turn around time.. Yes there is more than one cleaner on board but they also have to pick up the trash clean 4 to 8 bathrooms and sweep or vacuum the carpets in that time.
As for your question itself it depends on who you work for. At most Airports the airlines contract with airport service contractors for cleaners and toilet services. IT is less expensive for the airline as they may not have enough flights through that airport to justify having there own cleaning staff. The exceptions would be at their hub stations and main maintenance basis.
All in all it is a lot of hard work, for low pay and few benefits. As for promotions there are few if any fore few people stay long enough to get a promotion.
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Aircraft cleaning will be like any other cleaning job, whether cleaning city buses, office buildings or hotel rooms. It doesn't take a college degree and therefore there is no advancement to a cleaning job unless there is a position of supervisor of the cleaners.
I worked with someone who had a 2nd job cleaning city buses. It was a late night job and very hard work. You'll need to be willing to work hard and get average pay for it. If you want to know about benefits and the pay scale for this particular job, you'd need to ask the airlines or the airport you want to work at.
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