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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
• Meal Attendant
• Flight Steward
• Flight Hostess
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Ramp Flight Attendant”

• 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.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• 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.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• 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.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• 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.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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