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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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