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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”

• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• 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.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• 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.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• 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.
• Operate audio and video systems.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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