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