Skyteam internship - the aviation challenge: storytelling and content (from sept 2025)

At SkyTeam, innovation takes flight like never before. Since we started back in June 2000, SkyTeam and our world-class member airlines have built a leading alliance connecting customers across a vast global network of more than 945 destinations and 750 lounges in 160+ countries. We’ve achieved many ‘firsts’ together – SkyPriority, SkyTeam Rebooking, and The Aviation Challenge, to name just a few.
 
As the world around us changes at lightning speed, our pursuit to create cutting-edge solutions for members and customers is relentless. We want to be recognized as the most customer-centric alliance, anticipating and fulfilling evolving expectations.
 
We work daily to be a leader in truly advancing travel and mastering cocreation to empower SkyTeam members and partners to deliver ever more seamless, innovative, and responsible experiences to customers worldwide.
  
 n our relentless pursuit of creating a delightful customer journey through cutting-edge solutions, SkyTeam is thrilled to present a unique internship opportunity within our flagship sustainability initiative: The Aviation Challenge that promises to be as enlightening as it is challenging. 
  
This is a one-of-a-kind internship experience designed specifically for (applied) university students eager to take on the dynamic world of airline networks, distribution, and intermodal partnerships.

About The Aviation Challenge
The Aviation Challenge is an ambitious initiative by SkyTeam to inspire and accelerate the adoption of more sustainable practices within the aviation industry. Member airlines participate in this friendly competition by executing flights that showcase alternative practices in key impact areas including flight operations, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), aircraft engineering and maintenance, cargo and ground operations.  

The goal of the challenge is to reduce aviation’s impact on the environment and to spur breakthrough ideas, which can be shared across the industry. This year, the objective is for airlines to adopt and scale more sustainable solutions within their entire operations. At the end of the challenge, airlines' efforts will be evaluated by The Aviation Challenge’s expert panel, and winners in 18 award categories will be selected by our jury. 

 
About the Internship Opportunity 
As an intern at SkyTeam, you'll be more than just an observer. You'll be an integral part of The Aviation Challenge team from day 1 and work closely with our member airlines to ensure their initiatives are translated into compelling stories and documented properly in our repository. Your curiosity will be your guide as you embark on an intellectual scavenger hunt, gathering and analyzing data, conducting impact assessments, and bringing innovative ideas to the table.
 
This is your chance to navigate the intriguing labyrinth of global aviation!
 
 
Your Assignments:

• Storytelling: Uncover and narrate the compelling stories of airlines participating in The Aviation Challenge through interviews, video calls and strong writing. Highlight their struggles, successes, and practical examples of adopting and scaling more sustainable solutions.
• Repository Development: Collaborate with our communications team and airline representatives to gather submissions for our solutions repository. The repository features over 600 initiatives which have been submitted since the Challenge's inception in 2022.
• Content Improvement: Help elevate the overall quality of content on the repository and our new website, enhancing the depth and comprehensiveness, ensuring that it is informative, engaging, and accurately reflects the solutions impact and efforts of the airlines.
• Information Management: Assist in organizing and maintaining the content on the repository to ensure it is easily accessible and user-friendly for all stakeholders.
• Community Engagement: Assist our Engagement Lead in refining and disseminating knowledge from the solutions repository through transforming complex information into clear, understandable, and inspiring content that others can learn from. This effort aims to foster cross-airline collaboration and increase the overall engagement with our platform.

We are looking for:

• Curiosity: This is the number one skill we are looking for! You will be going on your own scavenger hunt for relevant and meaningful information, so a relentless desire to dig into topics and understand things is essential.  
• Detail Orientation: We love you to care about the details and combine that with strong execution skills. This is to deliver results and take tasks/ assignments to their full conclusion.  
• Initiative: The ability to be a self-starter and often work independently, figuring out what tasks to do to reach a goal and delivering assigned tasks systematically without additional prompting 
• Team Spirit: We work as a team, and would love you to fit in. This means we help each other and care personally about the others in the team. 
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills in English, and interpersonal abilities.
• Educational Background: Having an educational background in aviation, transportation or environmental studies is preferred but not required.
• Industry Knowledge: Demonstrated understanding and/or knowledge of the aviation industry, and particularly in aviation sustainability will be viewed positively.
• Cross-cultural Awareness: We thrive in an international environment and appreciate those who understand different cultures require different approaches.
• English Proficiency: A high level of English proficiency, both spoken and written, is required.

• You must maintain active enrollment in a university program throughout the duration of your internship.
• Currently residing in the Netherlands for the duration of your internship
• Minimum availability of 20h per week

SkyTeam will offer you package that includes unique benefits:

• Work in an international diverse team with various stakeholders
• This internship has been designed to provide university students with challenging work assignments in our Team. The candidate will fully participate as a team member.
• Internship fee of EUR 424 gross per month
• Travel expenses will be reimbursed ((if no accessibility to OV-Studentenreisproduct)
• SkyTeam uses a Hybrid working model.

SkyTeam is the global airline alliance dedicated to transforming the future of travel by powering the smartest and most integrated customer journey. Committed to innovation, responsibility, and collaboration, SkyTeam and our member airlines connect customers across an extensive global network. The alliance brings together diverse cultures and backgrounds through a shared passion for aviation—both passenger and cargo. We continuously evolve to meet the changing needs of travelers and the aviation industry.

At SkyTeam, we know the importance of fresh perspectives. With members spread across five continents and multiple time zones, we are flexible and agile, focused on delivering services that create synergy. Our headquarters in Amstelveen is home to a truly international team that reflects the diversity of our member airlines. With more than 30 nationalities represented on our team, we are proud to foster an inclusive, non-discriminatory workplace where differences are celebrated, successes are shared, and collaboration drives value for our members.