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”

• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• 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.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• 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.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• 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.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• Microsoft Office
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