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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”
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
- 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.
- Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- 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.
- Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
- Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
- Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- 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.
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
- Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
- Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
Related Technology & Tools
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Notebook computers
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Blood pressure recorders
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Refreshment carts
- Refrigeration units
- Desktop computers
- Epi-pens
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Nitroglycerin tablets
- Commercial cooking ovens
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Heaving life lines
- Smoke goggles
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Tourniquets
- Cabin management systems
- Water system shutoff valves
- Slideraft packs
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- Sliderafts
- Protective breathing equipment
- Flotation seat cushions
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Life preservers
- Megaphones
- Emergency rafts
- Window exit escape ropes
- Evacuation slides
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Storage compartments
- Portable oxygen equipment
- First aid kits
- Sphygmomanometers
- Electrical circuit breakers
- ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
- Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
- SBS International Maestro Suite
- Microsoft Excel
- Bid Assistant
- Microsoft Word
- AD OPT Altitude
- IBM Lotus LearningSpace
- Microsoft Office