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”

• 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 entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• 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.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• 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.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• 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.

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• Mechanical stethoscopes
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• Supplemental oxygen systems
• Life preservers
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• Blood pressure recorders
• Heaving life lines
• Automated external defibrillators AED
• Emergency rafts
• Cabin management systems
• Protective breathing equipment
• Emergency locator transmitters
• Satellite aircraft communication systems
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