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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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