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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”
- Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
- Heat and serve prepared foods.
- Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
- Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
- Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- Operate audio and video systems.
- Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
- Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
- Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
- 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.
- Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
- Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
- Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
- Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
- Collect money for meals and beverages.
- 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.
- Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
- Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
Related Technology & Tools
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
- Evacuation slides
- Refrigeration units
- Desktop computers
- Flotation seat cushions
- Smoke goggles
- Satellite aircraft communication systems
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Heaving life lines
- Emergency locator transmitters
- Slideraft packs
- Refreshment carts
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Chemical oxygen generators
- Water system shutoff valves
- Commercial cooking ovens
- Blood pressure recorders
- First aid kits
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Emergency exit doors and windows
- Megaphones
- Storage compartments
- Epi-pens
- Window exit escape ropes
- Tourniquets
- Nitroglycerin tablets
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
- Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
- Notebook computers
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Protective breathing equipment
- Halon fire extinguishers
- Sphygmomanometers
- Emergency rafts
- Sliderafts
- Cabin management systems
- Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
- Life preservers
- Lavatory smoke detectors
- Electrical circuit breakers
- Supplemental oxygen systems
- Bid Assistant
- AD OPT Altitude
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Arkitektia Flight Itinerary
- Microsoft Word
- ValtamTech Flight Crew Log
- SBS International Maestro Suite
- IBM Lotus LearningSpace