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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• IBM Lotus LearningSpace
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