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Worked as aircraft technician in France before becoming hawker<\/strong><\/p>\n At 18, Alain attended hospitality school Lycee Hotelier de Toulouse and graduated with a Chef de Rang 3 to 4 Luxe certificate (which according to Alain, qualifies you to work as front-of-house staff in three to four-star hotels.)<\/p>\n But he wanted something different. So Alain enrolled in a weeks-long flight steward diploma crash course.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Stewarding was the middle ground of [F&B and hospitality],” he explains. Unable to land a flight steward job, a relative in the industry got him a job as a part-time aircraft technician. What was supposed to be a placeholder job eventually became full-time, and he worked his way up to become team leader. “I was good at it,” he says proudly.<\/p>\n “We repaired seats, installed or changed oxygen masks, wired up monitors,\u201d he says. “Installing paper walls was one of the worst because there can’t be any bubbles.”<\/p>\n