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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
- Flight Steward
- Flight Hostess
- Door and Arrival Attendant
- Airplane Flight Attendant
- Airline Stewardess
- Airline Hostess
- Airline Flight Attendant
- Airline Attendant
Tasks for “Meal Attendant”
- Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
- 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.
- Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
- 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.
- Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
- Operate audio and video systems.
- Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
- 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.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
Related Technology & Tools
- Storage compartments
- Heaving life lines
- Water system shutoff valves
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
- Sliderafts
- Evacuation slides
- Sphygmomanometers
- Life preservers
- Commercial cooking ovens
- Notebook computers
- Megaphones
- Protective breathing equipment
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Tourniquets
- Smoke goggles
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Cabin management systems
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Flotation seat cushions
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Refreshment carts
- Nitroglycerin tablets
- First aid kits
- Epi-pens
- Slideraft packs
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Refrigeration units
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Desktop computers
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Window exit escape ropes
- Emergency rafts
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Blood pressure recorders
- Electrical circuit breakers
- Microsoft Word
- IBM Lotus LearningSpace
- Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
- Bid Assistant
- SBS International Maestro Suite
- AD OPT Altitude