Will “Flight Attendant, Inflight Services” 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 and Union Safety Chairperson
• Flight Attendant
• Ramp Flight Attendant
• Meal Attendant
• Flight Steward
• Flight Hostess
• Flight Attendant, Inflight Services
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Flight Attendant, Inflight Services”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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