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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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