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