Will “In-Flight Crew Member” 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
• Flight Hostess
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “In-Flight Crew Member”

• Operate audio and video systems.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• 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.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• 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.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• 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.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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