Will “Flight Attendant/Inflight Manager” 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/Inflight Manager”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• SBS International Maestro Suite
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• Microsoft Office
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