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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”
- Operate audio and video systems.
- Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- 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.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- 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.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
- Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
- 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.
- Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
- Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
- Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Chemical oxygen generators
- Cabin management systems
- Epi-pens
- Blood pressure recorders
- Refreshment carts
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Water system shutoff valves
- Electrical circuit breakers
- Refrigeration units
- Desktop computers
- Evacuation slides
- Emergency rafts
- Nitroglycerin tablets
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Sliderafts
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Slideraft packs
- Life preservers
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Window exit escape ropes
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Sphygmomanometers
- Protective breathing equipment
- Tourniquets
- Portable oxygen equipment
- First aid kits
- Flotation seat cushions
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
- Megaphones
- Smoke goggles
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- IBM Lotus LearningSpace
- AD OPT Altitude
- Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
- Bid Assistant
- SBS International Maestro Suite
- Microsoft Office
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