Will “Airline Flight Attendant” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

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 Attendant

Tasks for “Airline Flight Attendant”

• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• 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.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.

Related Technology & Tools

• Protective breathing equipment
• Cabin management systems
• Satellite aircraft communication systems
• Storage compartments
• Supplemental oxygen systems
• Blood pressure recorders
• Intravenous IV administration sets
• Sliderafts
• Emergency locator transmitters
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
• Halon fire extinguishers
• First aid kits
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• Life preservers
• Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
• Evacuation slides
• Notebook computers
• Refreshment carts
• Emergency exit doors and windows
• Slideraft packs
• Portable oxygen equipment
• Megaphones
• Desktop computers
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
• Tourniquets
• Epi-pens
• Smoke goggles
• Commercial cooking ovens
• Refrigeration units
• Automated external defibrillators AED
• Emergency rafts
• Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Sphygmomanometers
• Electrical circuit breakers
• Water system shutoff valves
• Heaving life lines
• Window exit escape ropes
• Chemical oxygen generators
• Nitroglycerin tablets
• Lavatory smoke detectors
• Flotation seat cushions

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