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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
• Ramp Flight Attendant
• Meal Attendant
• Flight Steward
• Flight Hostess
• Flight Attendant and Union Safety Chairperson
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Flight Attendant and Union Safety Chairperson”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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