Will “Flight Attendant/Air Transportation Supervisor” 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
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Flight Attendant/Air Transportation Supervisor”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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