Will “Flight Attendant/Inflight 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/Inflight Supervisor”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
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• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
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