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Job Description
Provide personal services to ensure the safety, security, and comfort of airline passengers during flight. Greet passengers, verify tickets, explain use of safety equipment, and serve food or beverages.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 53-2031.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 51,620.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 0.00
- Currently, there are 113,390 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Flight Attendants”.
Also Known As…
- Flight Attendants
- Purser
- Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant
- International Flight Attendant
- In-Flight Crew Member
- Flight Attendant/Inflight Supervisor
- Flight Attendant/Inflight Manager
- Flight Attendant/Air Transportation Supervisor
- Flight Attendant, Inflight Services
- Flight Attendant and Union Safety Chairperson
- Flight Attendant
- Ramp Flight Attendant
- Meal Attendant
- Flight Steward
- Flight Hostess
- Door and Arrival Attendant
- Airplane Flight Attendant
- Airline Stewardess
- Airline Hostess
- Airline Flight Attendant
Tasks for “Airline Attendant”
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
- Operate audio and video systems.
- Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
- Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
- Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
- Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
- Prepare reports showing places of departure and destination, passenger ticket numbers, meal and beverage inventories, the conditions of cabin equipment, and any problems encountered by passengers.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
- Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
- Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
- Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
Related Technology & Tools
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Water system shutoff valves
- Cabin management systems
- Heaving life lines
- Tourniquets
- Slideraft packs
- Window exit escape ropes
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Megaphones
- Refreshment carts
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Nitroglycerin tablets
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Smoke goggles
- Epi-pens
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Sliderafts
- Evacuation slides
- Commercial cooking ovens
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
- Storage compartments
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Refrigeration units
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Life preservers
- Blood pressure recorders
- Sphygmomanometers
- Desktop computers
- Flotation seat cushions
- Notebook computers
- First aid kits
- Electrical circuit breakers
- Emergency rafts
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Protective breathing equipment
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- AD OPT Altitude
- Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
- IBM Lotus LearningSpace
- Microsoft Office
- Bid Assistant
- SBS International Maestro Suite
- Microsoft Word
- ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
- Microsoft Excel