Will “Flight Attendants” 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

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”

• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• 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.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to 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.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• 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.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• 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.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.

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• Notebook computers
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• Refreshment carts
• Storage compartments
• Window exit escape ropes
• Sliderafts
• Desktop computers
• Sphygmomanometers
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• Halon fire extinguishers
• Evacuation slides
• Heaving life lines
• Protective breathing equipment
• Portable oxygen equipment
• Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
• Emergency rafts
• Water system shutoff valves
• Epi-pens
• Flotation seat cushions
• Personal digital assistants PDA
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• Chemical oxygen generators
• Emergency locator transmitters
• Tourniquets
• Supplemental oxygen systems
• Slideraft packs
• Emergency exit doors and windows

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