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

Tasks for “Flight Attendant/Air Transportation Supervisor”

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

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

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