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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

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Flight Attendants”.

Also Known As…

• Flight Attendants
• 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
• Meal Attendant
• Flight Steward
• Flight Hostess
• Door and Arrival Attendant
• Airplane Flight Attendant
• Airline Stewardess
• Airline Hostess
• Airline Flight Attendant
• Airline Attendant

Tasks for “Ramp Flight Attendant”

• Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
• 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.
• Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
• Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
• Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
• Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
• Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
• Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
• 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.
• Heat and serve prepared foods.
• Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered.
• Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply.
• Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
• Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft.
• Collect money for meals and beverages.
• Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules.
• Operate audio and video systems.
• 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.
• Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
• Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
• Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
• Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.

Related Technology & Tools

• Tourniquets
• Lavatory smoke detectors
• Emergency rafts
• Sliderafts
• Evacuation slides
• Emergency exit doors and windows
• Window exit escape ropes
• Sphygmomanometers
• Automated external defibrillators AED
• Intravenous IV administration sets
• Flotation seat cushions
• Aircraft fire extinguishing systems
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• Portable oxygen equipment
• Nitroglycerin tablets
• Life preservers
• Megaphones
• Epi-pens
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR masks
• Chemical oxygen generators
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR equipment
• Electrical circuit breakers
• Water system shutoff valves
• Slideraft packs
• Cabin management systems
• Notebook computers
• Refrigeration units
• Self-inflating manual resuscitation devices
• Refreshment carts
• Blood pressure recorders
• Desktop computers
• Satellite aircraft communication systems
• Supplemental oxygen systems
• Heaving life lines
• Emergency locator transmitters
• Halon fire extinguishers
• Storage compartments
• Protective breathing equipment
• Commercial cooking ovens
• First aid kits
• Smoke goggles

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• AD OPT Altitude
• Microsoft Excel
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• Microsoft Office
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