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