Travel Attendants nec (ANZSCO 451799)
On the Regional Occupation List
From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.
Which lists is Travel Attendants nec on?
ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.
Visas this occupation can access
Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Travel Attendants nec comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
VETASSESS assesses Travel Attendants nec as a Group D occupation — AQF Certificate III or higher plus highly relevant employment. Its own suitable-occupation list names only Marine Steward, which is the clearest signal on this page of what the code is actually for: attendants working aboard vessels, trains or other transport, not aircraft. That single-item suitable list is deliberately narrow, unlike some other "nec" codes in this family that function as broad catch-alls for many jobs at once.
Where these applications come unstuck
Travel Attendants nec reaches only 494 on the ROL, the narrowest reach in the whole travel cluster — Flight Attendant beside it reaches five subclasses including 186 and 482. The specific trap is treating this nec code as a broader version of Flight Attendant for anyone doing attendant-type work generally; VETASSESS's own single-item suitable list, Marine Steward, shows the opposite is true — this is a narrow code for non-aircraft attendant roles, and an aircraft cabin-crew applicant belongs under Flight Attendant instead, with its much wider visa set.
An honest read on this pathway
This is the weakest visa pathway of the three travel-cluster codes in this family — a single state or territory-nominated subclass, no employer-sponsorship or points-tested route at all. Whether that reflects genuine demand data behind the list or simply how narrowly the occupation itself is scoped was not established in this research pass; either way, the visa reach is the fact to plan around, not the occupation's actual duties.
VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.
Talk it through with a registered agent
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