Will “In-Flight Crew Member” 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
• Flight Attendant/Inflight Supervisor
• 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
• In-Flight Crew Member
• Flight Steward
• Flight Hostess
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “In-Flight Crew Member”

• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• 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.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• 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.
• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• 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.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• 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.
• 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.

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

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