Will “Door and Arrival 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
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Door and Arrival Attendant”

• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• 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.
• 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.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• 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.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• 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 entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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