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

Tasks for “Flight Attendant”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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