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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• Microsoft Office
• SBS International Maestro Suite
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• Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
• Bid Assistant
• Microsoft Word
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