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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.

Do you enjoy these?

  • 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