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