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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 Hostess
- Door and Arrival Attendant
- Airplane Flight Attendant
- Airline Stewardess
- Airline Hostess
- Airline Flight Attendant
- Airline Attendant
Tasks for “Flight Steward”
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
- Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
- Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
- Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- 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.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
- 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.
- Operate audio and video systems.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
- Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
- Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
- Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Protective breathing equipment
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Sphygmomanometers
- First aid kits
- Sliderafts
- Heaving life lines
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Megaphones
- Smoke goggles
- Desktop computers
- Evacuation slides
- Notebook computers
- Tourniquets
- Electrical circuit breakers
- Cabin management systems
- Window exit escape ropes
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Refreshment carts
- Water system shutoff valves
- Slideraft packs
- Nitroglycerin tablets
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- Epi-pens
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- Personal digital assistants PDA
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