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