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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”

• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• 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.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• 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.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• Microsoft Excel
• IBM Lotus LearningSpace
• ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
• AD OPT Altitude
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
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