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”

• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• 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.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• 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.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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