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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”

• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• 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.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• 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 passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• 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.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Operate audio and video systems.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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