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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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