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”

• 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.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• 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.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• 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.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• 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.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.

Related Technology & Tools

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

• AD OPT Altitude
• SBS International Maestro Suite
• Microsoft Office
• IBM Lotus LearningSpace
• Microsoft Excel
• ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
• Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
• Microsoft Word
• Bid Assistant