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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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