Will “Airline Stewardess” 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 Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Airline Stewardess”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

• SBS International Maestro Suite
• Microsoft Word
• Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
• IBM Lotus LearningSpace
• ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
• Microsoft Office
• Bid Assistant
• Microsoft Excel
• AD OPT Altitude