The focus of the hiring is on foreign-language speakers who can work on international flights and speak languages including Japanese, Mandarin, Dutch and Spanish, airline spokeswoman Betsy Talton said.
The new flight attendants will begin training in January and should be flying by the middle of next year, she said.
Delta, the largest airline at Detroit Metro, has received more than 85,000 applications for the flight attendant jobs. The last time Delta hired new flight attendants was in 2008. The 425 who are returning to work came from a pool of about 730 who volunteered for furloughs. All those who wanted to come back to work, did, Talton said.
Delta flight attendants are voting on whether they want to be represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, or go without a union. The airline said the recalled flight attendants would have been able to vote in the election whether or not they had come back to work.
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