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

Tasks for “Airplane Flight Attendant”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• Bid Assistant
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• AD OPT Altitude
• Microsoft Excel
• SBS International Maestro Suite
• Microsoft Office
• Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
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