Will “Flight Hostess” 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
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Flight Hostess”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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