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