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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
• Microsoft Office
• AD OPT Altitude
• ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
• Microsoft Excel
• IBM Lotus LearningSpace
• Bid Assistant
• Microsoft Word