Will “Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant” 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 “Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant”

• Operate audio and video systems.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• 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.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to 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.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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