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”

• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• 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.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• 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.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• 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.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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