Will “Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant” 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
• International Flight Attendant
• In-Flight Crew Member
• 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
• Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant
• Flight Steward
• Flight Hostess
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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