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Flight Attendants
Provide personal services to ensure the safety and comfort of airline passengers during flight. Greet passengers, verify tickets, explain use of safety equipment, and serve food or beverages.
Other names for Flight Attendants:
Airline Attendant, Airline Hostess, Airline Stewardess, Airplane Flight Attendant, Flight Attendant, Flight Hostess, Flight Steward, In-Flight Crew Member, Purser, Ramp Flight Attendant,
What do Flight Attendants do?
Direct and assist passengers in the event of an emergency, such as directing passengers to evacuate a plane following an emergency landing.
Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to take-offs and landings.
Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
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.
Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons.
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.
Announce flight delays and descent preparations.
Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information.
Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, and/or schedules.
Assist passengers while entering or disembarking the aircraft.
Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order.
Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats.
Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort, and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets.
Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected.
Operate audio and video systems.
Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage.
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.
Collect money for meals and beverages.
Heat and serve prepared foods.
Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers.
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Aircraft fire control or extinguishing systems
Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
Blood pressure recording units
Aircraft environment controllers
Emergency resuscitator or aspirator kits
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR protective shields or masks
Aircraft oxygen equipment
Desktop computers
Circuit breakers
Aircraft escape or ejection systems
Radio frequency transmitters or receivers
Lifeboats or liferafts
Hypodermic injection apparatus or accessories
Aircraft escape or ejection systems
Emergency medical services first aid kits
Life vests or preservers
Fire extinguishers
Rope float lines
Emergency medical services intravenous IV kits
Smoke detectors
Life vests or preservers
Megaphones
Nitroglycerin
Notebook computers
Commercial use ovens
Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
Aircraft oxygen equipment
Aircraft oxygen equipment
Cool containers
Cool containers
Aircraft communication systems
Emergency medical services oxygen or resuscitation kits
Aircraft escape or ejection systems
Lifeboats or liferafts
Goggles
Blood pressure cuff kits
Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
Cool containers
Aircraft oxygen equipment
Emergency medical services tourniquets or clamps
Control valves
Aircraft escape or ejection systems
Technology used
Calendar and scheduling software
Computer based training software