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Career: Flight Attendants
Job Description
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.
Job Tasks
Importance %age |
Task Description |
100
|
Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets. |
100
|
Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings. |
100
|
Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order. |
100
|
Administer first aid to passengers in distress. |
100
|
Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers. |
100
|
Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures. |
100
|
Check to ensure that food, beverages, blankets, reading material, emergency equipment, and other supplies are aboard and are in adequate supply. |
100
|
Reassure passengers when situations such as turbulence are encountered. |
100
|
Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules. |
100
|
Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats. |
100
|
Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets. |
100
|
Take inventory of headsets, alcoholic beverages, and money collected. |
100
|
Assist passengers in placing carry-on luggage in overhead, garment, or under-seat storage. |
98
|
Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing. |
98
|
Determine special assistance needs of passengers such as small children, the elderly, or disabled persons. |
98
|
Announce flight delays and descent preparations. |
98
|
Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft. |
98
|
Sell alcoholic beverages to passengers. |
96
|
Inspect passenger tickets to verify information and to obtain destination information. |
94
|
Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order. |
91
|
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. |
89
|
Collect money for meals and beverages. |
82
|
Operate audio and video systems. |
66
|
Heat and serve prepared foods. |
Work Activities
Importance %age |
Activity Description |
84
|
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
|
76
|
Assisting and Caring for Others
|
76
|
Handling and Moving Objects
|
71
|
Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
|
67
|
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
|
67
|
Making Decisions and Solving Problems
|
64
|
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
|
63
|
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
|
63
|
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
|
62
|
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
|
60
|
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
|
59
|
Performing General Physical Activities
|
57
|
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
|
55
|
Getting Information
|
49
|
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
|
48
|
Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
|
46
|
Communicating with Persons Outside Organization
|
46
|
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
|
42
|
Developing and Building Teams
|
37
|
Scheduling Work and Activities
|
37
|
Processing Information
|
37
|
Thinking Creatively
|
34
|
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
|
32
|
Documenting/Recording Information
|
29
|
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
|
28
|
Selling or Influencing Others
|
27
|
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
|
26
|
Coaching and Developing Others
|
24
|
Analyzing Data or Information
|
22
|
Interacting With Computers
|
20
|
Monitoring and Controlling Resources
|
19
|
Controlling Machines and Processes
|
18
|
Training and Teaching Others
|
15
|
Performing Administrative Activities
|
15
|
Provide Consultation and Advice to Others
|
11
|
Developing Objectives and Strategies
|
8
|
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
|
6
|
Staffing Organizational Units
|
5
|
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
|
4
|
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
|
2
|
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
|