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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”

• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• IBM Lotus LearningSpace
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• Microsoft Word
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