Will “Flight Attendant/Inflight 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 Manager
• 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 Supervisor
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Flight Attendant/Inflight Supervisor”

• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
• 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.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• 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.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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