MBO internships
Every year, we offer dozens of great internships to aspiring aviation service providers and aircraft maintenance technicians. As an aircraft maintenance technician, you could be working on different types of aircraft in the hangars or even on the platform at Schiphol Centre. During your internship as a gate agent, you provide the very best service in the arrival hall, departure hall, or at the piers at Schiphol. Looking for an MBO internship? Then contact your work placement coordinator. We work together with schools across the country.
HBO/WO internships
Whether you are a communications, mechatronics or data science student, you can find challenging work placements at KLM. We mainly offer work experience placements, but graduation work placements are sometimes available too. The majority of interns work at KLM between three and five days a week. This also depends on any graduation research you are doing. You establish the content of this research in collaboration with KLM and your internship supervisor. Would you prefer to expand your horizons with a dual (work/study) placement? That's possible, too. On average, you will work 2.5 days a week (paid) and receive a contract for one or two years. If there's a click between us? Then there’s a possibility for you to progress to an entry-level job.
Check the vacancies for current internships
Find an internship
Just completed, or about to complete your studies and ready to ‘leave the nest’? You've probably already thought about your next step. Numerous professionals started their career at KLM: during work experience or on an agency contract. Or even in an entry level job. With that in mind, we usually look for new colleagues with some kind of work experience. But, if you believe that you are the ideal candidate for that particular job, you're more than welcome to surprise us! Don't forget – no one candidate meets all requirements. So, you never know. Still undecided? We have a large number of hbo graduates and wo’ers who have chosen to ‘fly for a year’ as cabin attendant. Just saying.
Check the vacancies for current internships.
Meet the crew
Jorn Elshout
Intern Aviation Engineering
‘I also feel that blue virus flowing through my veins.’
‘Being an intern within KLM is the highest possible achievement with my course Aviation at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. And I fully understand why. I am over the moon and proud when during my lunch break, I have a walk round the hanger; the parked planes, the smell of kerosine, the blue overalls.... At KLM Engineering & Maintenance I feel the blue virus flowing through my veins. During my internship I have experienced an eureka moment, for which an amendment will be made in the learning program. This really give me the sense of adding value to the KLM.’
Yasmine Smits
Intern Passenger Services
‘I am hugely becoming more independent.’
‘As youngster I always admired the air hostesses and their characteristic service orientation. I wanted that too! Now that I am an intern as junior gate agent at Schiphol. I also want to offer passengers the best possible service. So that they have an unforgettable travel experience. I am proud when I stand at the gate in front of passengers in my uniform. Proud of myself and of KLM! I am really having fun and am enjoying the challenges and th variety of this internship and acknowledge that the freedom they give me has allowed me to grow in becoming more independent. '