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