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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
- Door and Arrival Attendant
- Airplane Flight Attendant
- Airline Stewardess
- Airline Hostess
- Airline Flight Attendant
- Airline Attendant
Tasks for “Flight Hostess”
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- Operate audio and video systems.
- 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.
- Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
- Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- 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.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
- Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
- Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
- Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
- 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.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Storage compartments
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Evacuation slides
- Sphygmomanometers
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Flotation seat cushions
- Heaving life lines
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Water system shutoff valves
- Epi-pens
- Cabin management systems
- Desktop computers
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Sliderafts
- Slideraft packs
- Refreshment carts
- Notebook computers
- Blood pressure recorders
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Life preservers
- Emergency rafts
- Tourniquets
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Refrigeration units
- Commercial cooking ovens
- First aid kits
- Protective breathing equipment
- Window exit escape ropes
- Megaphones
- Smoke goggles
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
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- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
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- SBS International Maestro Suite
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