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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”
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
- Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
- 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.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- 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.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
- Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
- Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- Operate audio and video systems.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
- Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Megaphones
- Protective breathing equipment
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Emergency rafts
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Slideraft packs
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Storage compartments
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Flotation seat cushions
- Cabin management systems
- Epi-pens
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- First aid kits
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Notebook computers
- Life preservers
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Smoke goggles
- Desktop computers
- Heaving life lines
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Window exit escape ropes
- Tourniquets
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- Water system shutoff valves
- Blood pressure recorders
- Sphygmomanometers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Refrigeration units
- Sliderafts
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Evacuation slides
- Nitroglycerin tablets
- Commercial cooking ovens
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Electrical circuit breakers
- Refreshment carts
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
- Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
- Microsoft Office
- Bid Assistant
- IBM Lotus LearningSpace
- Microsoft Excel
- AD OPT Altitude
- ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
- Microsoft Word
- SBS International Maestro Suite