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”

• 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.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• 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.
• 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.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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