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

Tasks for “Flight Attendant/Inflight Manager”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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• AD OPT Altitude
• Microsoft Office
• Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
• ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
• Microsoft Word
• Bid Assistant
• Microsoft Excel
• IBM Lotus LearningSpace