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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 and Union Safety Chairperson”

• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• 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.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• 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.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• 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.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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