Jobs / Transportation and material moving / 53-2031.00
Flight Attendants
Monitor safety of the aircraft cabin. Provide services to airline passengers, explain safety information, serve food and beverages, and respond to emergency incidents.
- US jobs
- 131,650
- Median wage
- $63,580 a year
- Job family
- Transportation and material moving
Can agents do the work of flight attendants?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Transportation and material moving: Unmeasured (no change in 12 months)
No direct benchmark gives a success rate.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 21%Provide general assistance to others, such as customers, patrons, or motoristsNot measured
- 20%Provide information to guests, clients, or customersNot measured
- 7%Monitor individual behavior or performanceNot measured
- 6%Monitor resources or inventoriesNot measured
- 5%Inspect vehiclesNot measured
- 5%Administer emergency medical treatmentNot measured
- 5%Communicate with others about operational plans or activitiesNot measured
- 4%Resolve personnel or operational problemsNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in transportation and material moving, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
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Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Verify that first aid kits and other emergency equipment, including fire extinguishers and oxygen bottles, are in working order.
- Announce and demonstrate safety and emergency procedures, such as the use of oxygen masks, seat belts, and life jackets.
- Monitor passenger behavior to identify threats to the safety of the crew and other passengers.
- Walk aisles of planes to verify that passengers have complied with federal regulations prior to takeoffs and landings.
- Direct and assist passengers in emergency procedures, such as evacuating a plane following an emergency landing.
- Prepare passengers and aircraft for landing, following procedures.
- Administer first aid to passengers in distress.
- Determine special assistance needs of passengers, such as small children, the elderly, or persons with disabilities.
- Attend preflight briefings concerning weather, altitudes, routes, emergency procedures, crew coordination, lengths of flights, food and beverage services offered, and numbers of passengers.
- 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.
- 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.
Other job titles for this occupation (20)
Flight Attendant · In-Flight Crew Member · Inflight Services Flight Attendant · International Flight Attendant · Purser · Aircraft Cabin Agent · Airline Attendant · Airline Flight Attendant · Airline Hostess · Airline Stewardess · Airplane Flight Attendant · Cabin Attendant · Door and Arrival Attendant · Flight Crew · Flight Crew Member · Flight Hostess · Flight Steward · Meal Attendant · Ramp Flight Attendant · Steward