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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”
- Operate audio and video systems.
- Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- 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.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
- 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.
- Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- 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.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
- Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
Related Technology & Tools
- Cabin management systems
- Evacuation slides
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Water system shutoff valves
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Sliderafts
- Commercial cooking ovens
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Tourniquets
- Flotation seat cushions
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Epi-pens
- Electrical circuit breakers
- Refrigeration units
- Notebook computers
- Heaving life lines
- Nitroglycerin tablets
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Blood pressure recorders
- Sphygmomanometers
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Window exit escape ropes
- Refreshment carts
- Protective breathing equipment
- Slideraft packs
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Smoke goggles
- Desktop computers
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Storage compartments
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- First aid kits
- Life preservers
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Emergency rafts
- Megaphones
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- AD OPT Altitude
- Bid Assistant
- Microsoft Excel
- SBS International Maestro Suite
- Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
- IBM Lotus LearningSpace