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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
Also Known As…
- Purser
- Lead Instructor/Flight Attendant
- 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
- Flight Steward
- Flight Hostess
- Door and Arrival Attendant
- Airplane Flight Attendant
- Airline Stewardess
- Airline Hostess
- Airline Flight Attendant
- Airline Attendant
Tasks for “Flight Attendants”
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- Operate audio and video systems.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- 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.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
- 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.
- Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
- Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
- 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.
- Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
- Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
- 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.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- 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.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Flotation seat cushions
- Cabin management systems
- Portable oxygen equipment
- First aid kits
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Water system shutoff valves
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Megaphones
- Notebook computers
- Epi-pens
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Emergency rafts
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Sphygmomanometers
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Refreshment carts
- Evacuation slides
- Commercial cooking ovens
- Blood pressure recorders
- Slideraft packs
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Nitroglycerin tablets
- Heaving life lines
- Electrical circuit breakers
- Window exit escape ropes
- Storage compartments
- Tourniquets
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Protective breathing equipment
- Sliderafts
- Life preservers
- Smoke goggles
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
- Refrigeration units
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Bid Assistant
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
- Microsoft Excel
- ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
- AD OPT Altitude
- IBM Lotus LearningSpace
- SBS International Maestro Suite