Flight Attendants

Flight Attendants typically perform the following tasks: • 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. • Announce flight delays and descent preparations. • Greet passengers boarding aircraft and direct them to assigned seats. • Assist passengers entering or disembarking the aircraft. • Conduct periodic trips through the cabin to ensure passenger comfort and to distribute reading material, headphones, pillows, playing cards, and blankets. • Inspect and clean cabins, checking for any problems and making sure that cabins are in order. • Operate audio and video systems. • Answer passengers' questions about flights, aircraft, weather, travel routes and services, arrival times, or schedules. • Collect money for meals and beverages.